Little known facts: It snows in Canada

wjs7744 · Post by **wjs7744** » 2008-02-06 11:16pm

Should consider yourselves lucky, I don't think it's snowed at all this year here.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2008-02-07 10:13am

Darth Wong wrote:This snow had goddamned well better hang around until the weekend. It's sledding time.

Unless it's 30°C tomorrow with heavy rain all day, I'm pretty sure the snow's going to be around on the weekend this time.

This winter's been pretty stupid so far, we get a big snowstorm and then a week of 5-10°C weather with a couple days of rain thrown in, then a dusting of snow followed by more above freezing weather until the next snowstorm comes along. If it actually stayed cold we'd be buried under well over a metre of snow by now.

Post by **Surlethe** » 2008-02-07 10:18am

aerius wrote:This winter's been pretty stupid so far, we get a big snowstorm and then a week of 5-10°C weather with a couple days of rain thrown in, then a dusting of snow followed by more above freezing weather until the next snowstorm comes along. If it actually stayed cold we'd be buried under well over a metre of snow by now.

It's not just you guys it's been crazy for; here, earlier this week, it was thunderstorming and 15°C out, and now it's dropped down to -2°C with snow flurries.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2008-02-07 10:31am

Remember, the fact that it was something like 15°C with thunderstorms in the middle of January in Canada has nothing to do with global warming. It's all caused by sunspots or something, there is no global warming.

wjs7744 · Post by **wjs7744** » 2008-02-07 10:34am

Speaking of global warming, is it wrong that a part of me is looking forwards to it because we might get some more interesting weather?

(Hey, I never said it was a particularly rational part of me)

Ryan Thunder · Post by **Ryan Thunder** » 2008-02-08 02:14am

defanatic wrote:I live in Australia, and snow seems like a very novel concept. Is it true that you can fashion snow into rudimentary projectiles and throw them at things?

Only if it's the right kind. But you can always just throw it anyways.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2008-02-13 05:07pm

I haven't seen this much snow in a good 5 years or more, this is how I remember winters being like when I was a kid. Every winter we'd have nice big piles of snow to play in, and life was great.

The snow piles are higher than my car

Wide angle view from across the street

Darkdrium · Post by **Darkdrium** » 2008-02-13 05:29pm

Ha! Even this pales compared to what we have in New-Brunswick. We have well over a meter of snow over here. It's been snowing almost every two days here and we're having a snowstorm as we speak. I for one, am tired of shoveling the damn stuff every weekend.

J · Post by J » 2008-02-13 06:03pm

It sure snows a lot more out east, when I lived in Nova Scotia we'd regularly get buried under tons of snow. When I was a kid it seemed like every time it snowed, the snow would be well over my knees and most of the way up to my waist. There was even a time when we had over a metre of snow dumped on us over the course of two or three days, my whole family had to go out and shovel twice a day until the storm was over to keep up with the snowfall. I kinda miss those multi-day snowstorms...

[R_H] · Post by **[R_H]** » 2008-02-13 07:43pm

J wrote:It sure snows a lot more out east, when I lived in Nova Scotia we'd regularly get buried under tons of snow. When I was a kid it seemed like every time it snowed, the snow would be well over my knees and most of the way up to my waist. There was even a time when we had over a metre of snow dumped on us over the course of two or three days, my whole family had to go out and shovel twice a day until the storm was over to keep up with the snowfall. I kinda miss those multi-day snowstorms...

At least you got bloody snow. Most winters in Calgary there was maybe 30cm of snow, but it would be damn cold (with the windchill). Fun times (especially waiting for the LRT).

muse · Post by **muse** » 2008-02-13 07:49pm

According to the weather forecast, we're going to have snow flurries in the Toronto area for 6 of the next 7 days. Oh joy oh bliss oh god my back!

Alferd Packer · Post by **Alferd Packer** » 2008-02-13 07:57pm

I'm such an irrational weenie. After 25 years, I've decided that I've had enough of the miserable, short, cold days of winter. I'm over this whole "snow" thing. Since I live in the United States, it's fairly easy for me to move to a snow-free locale. But, that creates a problem in and of itself...

...I'd lose out on those long summer days! I love it when there's 16 hours of daylight. Summer heat I can deal with. But if I fled to Florida or southern California, I'd lose like two hours or more of daylight in the summer, which is something I've experienced and find pretty depressing.

I think I need to keep a winter home in Florida. Yeah, that's the ticket.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2008-02-13 09:47pm

I love cold winters. Everyone should live in a place that has four actual seasons, not just slightly warmer or colder versions of one. Besides, that's one of the reasons we have a lot fewer bugs, and I'm starting to wonder if there's something to the suspicion that the hotter it gets, the stupider people become.

Post by **Vympel** » 2008-02-13 10:03pm

Australia doesn't have actual seasons at all. We have summers that are fucking hot (prior to New Years it was 41 degrees in Melbourne the day after I left) but our winters are only mildly cold - in the day the highs are probably in the high tens, no lower.

We don't get any snow.

Singular Intellect · Post by **Singular Intellect** » 2008-02-13 10:29pm

Darth Wong wrote:I'm starting to wonder if there's something to the suspicion that the hotter it gets, the stupider people become.

I wouldn't be surprised in the least. For an analogy, look at computer CPU's, the hotter they get the worse their performance is.

Alferd Packer · Post by **Alferd Packer** » 2008-02-14 09:35am

Darth Wong wrote:I love cold winters. Everyone should live in a place that has four actual seasons, not just slightly warmer or colder versions of one. Besides, that's one of the reasons we have a lot fewer bugs, and I'm starting to wonder if there's something to the suspicion that the hotter it gets, the stupider people become.

Having spent time down in the Florida Keys at all times of the year, I suspect that the sameness of the seasons makes people complacent. There are slight changes to the length of day, sun angle, and temperature, sure, but it looks the same all year 'round. And since the default weather condition is "nice," people are happy, relaxed, and docile. Constantly being in such a state definitely has an effect; I like to call it "sun-fried," but that's probably not accurate.

FSTargetDrone · Post by **FSTargetDrone** » 2008-02-14 01:32pm

Back in grade school in the late 80s, these two girls were new students in the seventh grade (they were twins from California) and we were all amazed when they said they had never seen snow in person. It seemed like it snowed around here a lot more often years ago. This season, I think it's snowed enough about 4 or 5 times to leave any kind of accumulation on the ground, and nothing over 3 or 4 inches. It just snowed this week, but it's already almost gone. It was barely enough to shovel.

Lots of rain. That's what we seem to get now. Bah.

wjs7744 · Post by **wjs7744** » 2008-02-15 12:05am

When I was in college, none of the Chinese students had seen snow before. Struck me as kind of weird. Of course, geography not being my strong subject, I had no idea how equatorial it was.

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2008-03-02 01:07am

Just to show that Toronto's snow fall is nothing compared to here in Ottawa.

That is by the front entrance to my parent's house.

The driveway with my car parked at the end.

This is the neighbourhood.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2008-03-02 03:41am

That's not snow. That's the politicians' lies floating up into the air and then precipitating out as a white powdery substance. Didn't you ever wonder why you get so much snow in Ottawa?

Spin Echo · Post by **Spin Echo** » 2008-03-02 04:42am

Enigma wrote:Just to show that Toronto's snow fall is nothing compared to here in Ottawa.

Bah. You call that a real snowfall? This is a real snowfall

You see that bump in the snow in right about the middle of the page? That's a roof.

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2008-03-02 01:32pm

Darth Wong wrote:That's not snow. That's the politicians' lies floating up into the air and then precipitating out as a white powdery substance. Didn't you ever wonder why you get so much snow in Ottawa?

Actually we should have a tropical climate from all of the hot air from the politicians.

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2008-03-02 02:32pm

Spin Echo wrote:
Enigma wrote:Just to show that Toronto's snow fall is nothing compared to here in Ottawa.
Bah. You call that a real snowfall? This is a real snowfall

You see that bump in the snow in right about the middle of the page? That's a roof.

I doubt you are Canadian. *points to the exit* OUT!

Spin Echo · Post by **Spin Echo** » 2008-03-02 04:24pm

Enigma wrote:
Spin Echo wrote:You see that bump in the snow in right about the middle of the page? That's a roof.
I doubt you are Canadian. *points to the exit* OUT!

I'm sorry that your light Canadian dustings can't stand up to a real winter.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2008-03-02 06:23pm

just wait, I have a mess of photos from my exile period, showing just how much it's snowed in yosemite national park.