"Canadian Smalltalk" (weather - all nations included!) Thread

[Griffin NoName]

Isn't water always liquid. (eg if frozen called ice, if steam called steam)?

No idea what effect storm and storm surges have done but flood defences on east coast were expected to be breached. People were evacuated. Will check news later............ last night's news was solely Mandela, there was no other news at all, and they cancelled two of my favourite programs to keep re-running all the same Mandela stuff over and over again. Totally unnecessary as there's a dedicated BBC News channel to do that kind of thing.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Ice/sleet storm yesterday, which gradually turned into classic tiny Oklahomer snow... bits?  They are too small to really qualify as flakes, yet they accumulate like flakes do.

On top of the aforementioned ice.

It's kind of like many religions, outside:  very beautiful on the surface.  But if you fail to tread carefully?  Danger lurks beneath.

[pieces o nine]

^ well said, Bob!

-9°F
Feels like: -9°

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

It's kind of like many religions, outside:  very beautiful on the surface.  But if you fail to tread carefully?  Danger lurks beneath.

And the more experience you have with it you start calling it white sh!t? 
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Zonoland is far from that, 80F at the moment.

[Griffin NoName]

Ok, cliffs disappearing and houses (originally 7 metres from the ocoean) falling into the sea. Worst storm surges for 150 years (?record keeping).

[Opsa]

Sounds dreadful!

We had about an inch of snow yesterday, followed by sleet, and finally, an ice storm. Schools are closed today (Th'Opsalette is thrilled and will probably reamin in her jammies all day), government opens 2 hours late. It's pretty (a religious experience?  ) but we're hoping our power won't go out. The lights keep flashing.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Well, yesterday it warmed to just above freezing-- long enough to thaw the major streets, but not warm enough to help the side streets at all.

So it's an adventure getting to the main road, and then it's not bad. 

However; more snow is expected ... or as Zono so accurately describes, "white shyt". 

[Swatopluk]

Very warm here since yesterday. +10°C and drizzle (after near freezing and snow the days before).

[Aggie]

Snow and relative cold here lately, to be replaced by South African summer by the end of the week.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

As in, dramatic climate shift or plane to SA?
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Getting hotter, 80F

[Swatopluk]

Very warm here since yesterday. +10°C and drizzle (after near freezing and snow the days before).

Forecast about the same, just 2°C lower

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Back to below freezing (32F) tonight, my porch thermo says it's 27F now.  No sign of the predicted sleet/snow though. 

[Opsa]

We had three or four inches of snow yesterday. It was wonderful! Not too much, and not too little. Plus, it was great snowball/snowman snow. Th'Opsalette built two in our yard. We went to a neighbor's and tried to build a snow serpent plunging in and out of the yard, but the face turned out weird, so we decided it was evil. We put two red tree ornaments in it's eyes and built a dead snowman lying in front of it, squirted with catsup. I guess it was disturbing, but we were laughing the whole time.We must have been punchy.

Today it is barely to the freezing mark. Nothing melting here!

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

LOL!  Calvin would have understood perfectly. 

[Aggie]

As in, dramatic climate shift or plane to SA?

Plane.  I was going to drive, but the routing on my GPS was having trouble with it.

LOL @ snow shenanigans, Opsa!