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RE: It's late September and we really should be getting cool...
12-11-2017, 08:43 AM
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It looks like we got our first lasting snow yesterday. We're getting more tonight and tomorrow - an "Alberta clipper" is headed our way, promising 10-15cm (4-6") of snow over 24 hours. EDIT: Now they're saying "minimum 10cm". Oh, and the temperature this morning was -17C (~ 1F)...
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RE: It's late September and we really should be getting cool...
12-11-2017, 10:41 AM
It's been snowing steadily, if with occasional breaks, since Friday in the Netherlands. As the temperature continues to hover around 0 degrees Celsius we are getting a lot of slush and ice patches. It's a good thing it's not just the car roads that get salted here; if you think driving with summer tires in a car is liable to make you slip, try doing it with maybe 100 kilograms of cyclist and bicycle on a pair of cycling tires no more than 3 centimeters wide while dealing with a tangled mess of frozen and hardened tracks hidden in soft snow.
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RE: It's late September and we really should be getting cool...
12-11-2017, 11:33 AM
Rochester NY got a dusting of snow yesterday, and a couple of inches' worth last night. Looks like it's sticking around now.
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RE: It's late September and we really should be getting cool...
12-12-2017, 07:17 PM
The temperatures have fallen down to the 20s here, and there's a light dusting on the ground. Of course, that's in Celsius, and that dusting is made out of ash. Red Flag Warning through Friday, which means we'll have had offshore flow (with fire) for a week and a half.
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RE: It's late September and we really should be getting cool...
12-26-2017, 06:08 PM
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Does anybody want some cold air?
The forecast for Ottawa is for the high temperatures to be at or below 1F at least through New Year's Day. The forecast low tonight is -26C / -15F, and it doesn't get any better for at least three nights.
EDIT: It could be worse. At least we have power - unlike parts of Nova Scotia.
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RE: It's late September and we really should be getting cool...
12-28-2017, 03:09 PM
Welp. A cold wave has just swept in over a lot of the Northeast USA. Yesterday had a high of 25 F, and last night got down to 12 F; today the high was maybe 21, with 9 F forecast for tonight -- and 8 F for New Year's Eve. Not as bad as Ottawa, but still frigid for this area.
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RE: It's late September and we really should be getting cool...
12-28-2017, 07:38 PM
Tonight's low in Ottawa with wind chill is expected to be below -40. (At that point, it doesn't matter what scale we're using.)
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RE: It's late September and we really should be getting cool...
12-28-2017, 08:14 PM
(12-28-2017, 07:38 PM)robkelk Wrote: Tonight's low in Ottawa with wind chill is expected to be below -40. (At that point, it doesn't matter what scale we're using.)
*nods* As I recall, -40 is where the Farenheit and Celsius scales match up. -40 in one = -40 in the other. Either way it's DAMN COLD!
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RE: It's late September and we really should be getting cool...
12-28-2017, 09:58 PM
And I must correct myself: I thought the cold snap was regional, but it's clearly much larger -- WCBS radio in NYC described it as affecting the "eastern two thirds of the United States", which means it's almost certainly the same system which is making Ottawa so roasty-toasty right now.
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RE: It's late September and we really should be getting cool...
12-29-2017, 08:00 AM
Light jacket weather during the week, freezing cold on the weekends here.
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RE: It's late September and we really should be getting cool...
01-05-2018, 03:05 AM
What's cooler than being cool? Ice cold! Also, Niagara Falls.
SoCal is frustratingly warm here. I was just eating an ice cream outside in shorts at midnight, while the dog was hunting for rats. Currently 61°F. So far this season, no precipitation of any kind. Ash counts as deposition and not precipitation, you see. I'd really like to see some rain at all this year? This is theoretically our rainy season. Monday is supposed to be rainy, fingers crossed.
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RE: It's late September and we really should be getting cool...
01-05-2018, 05:40 AM
Would you like some from the Netherlands? We've had 65 millimeters of rain just this past week.
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RE: It's late September and we really should be getting cool...
01-05-2018, 07:54 AM
30-40 degree F swings in temperature here right now... from 27 to a forecast 55 today, and we've had larger variations than that between the low and the high. I don't recall this sort of swing being the norm for days on end.
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RE: It's late September and we really should be getting cool...
01-05-2018, 08:30 AM
Just saw the forecast for the next few days around here -- we're heading for -4F tomorrow night. The weather report was talking about another polar vortex hitting us.
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RE: It's late September and we really should be getting cool...
01-05-2018, 09:30 AM
Bob, that's our forecast high for tomorrow.
Oh, and Nova Scotia got a foot of snow yesterday.
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RE: It's late September and we really should be getting cool...
01-05-2018, 02:54 PM
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Well, some of Nova Scotia. Halifax mainly got a great deal of rain. And wind, lots of wind.
And some photos:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scoti...47?cmp=rss
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RE: It's late September and we really should be getting cool...
01-05-2018, 03:42 PM
Good to hear that you're okay.
And the fourth photo in that set (of Peggy's Cove) is very impressive...
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RE: It's late September and we really should be getting cool...
01-05-2018, 09:08 PM
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Okay, this is cool.
A man in PEI took a nap at the start of the storm, and woke up to discover some ice that wasn't there when he dozed off:
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Source and story: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edw...-1.4474974
This is not cool: Two aircraft collided at Toronto Pearson airport.
On the ground, so no fatalities, but the way I'm reading the story at least one of the jets appears to be a write-off. And I expect this will delay getting the flights out of YYZ back on schedule after the big storm.
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01-06-2018, 01:29 AM
It won't cause much of a delay. A replacement jet will be arranged but the actual challenge is the extreme cold.
As for the ice... I now realize why shifting ice can be such a terror.
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RE: It's late September and we really should be getting cool...
01-07-2018, 10:21 AM
Good news: The forecast is for the temperature to go up to -10C today, stay there overnight, and get almost to freezing tomorrow.
Bad news: There's a blizzard warning.
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RE: It's late September and we really should be getting cool...
01-08-2018, 08:11 AM
And our cold snap breaks today, with a forecast high of 30F or more -- and tomorrow's supposed to be in the 40s.
However, there's also a 50% chance of snow showers today circa noon or afterwards.
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01-08-2018, 08:20 AM
Mixed rain and snow here in lower Michigan; according to two separate readings, the temperature is just above freezing.
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RE: It's late September and we really should be getting cool...
01-08-2018, 09:20 AM
No blizzard, but we did get and are getting some snow. This being Ottawa, almost everyone has forgotten how to drive.
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RE: It's late September and we really should be getting cool...
01-08-2018, 12:24 PM
Well it's noon-thirty here and while it's overcast, no snow showers have appeared yet.
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