OT-Winter weather

Thanks,

We talked with our daughter and son in law, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, last evening. They have had 3 storms in past week giving them a total of close to 120cm or 3 feet. I guess that is the reason we didn't hear from Sam in NS or others down there. Their computers are burried in snow.

Sean

The weathermen said that this was the fifth worst storm since the keeping of records. From a snow removal person's point of view, the cleanup was very easy.

scotty

Bigger issue is the cold. Temperature has not made it out of single digits and nighttime lows have been running –10 to -15 the last several days. Makes it tough to work on breakdowns unless you can the equipment inside. And my woodburner is gobbling wood at an alarming rate – but it’s still better than paying the gas company to keep warm!

Heck, I sure don't know what's going on around here. We had one little cold snap there about 10 days ago, one little 3" snow all winter long and now it isn't even getting down to freezing at night anymore.

Woke up the other morning and it was 41 at 5am; outlook is for the 60s all week long.

If this keeps up and the ground temp gets up to 40 degrees, that wheat is gonna decide to take off and then sure as everything, smack, here comes a winter kill.

Don't make any sense at all,

Allan

Glad to see that the old flu bug doesn’t have you down any more. :>)

I agree as the weather here is just as crazy as what you described. We had about a total of 8 inches of the dry fluffy stuff that wouldn’t stay put until it got over freezing last week. Hmm…right now we don’t have much left, and by the end of the week it will pretty much all be gone.

Weather man on TV did a research on winters where Sioux Falls had less than 12” of snow by the end of January. I don’t like what history is showing us as average snowfall the rest of the winter was over 20 inches, and the most being almost 60 inches. If we get that much snow, maybe it won’t get cold enough to winter kill. Time will tell.

Of course what turns those city dwelling media folks is all those structures thay have built to keep them safe out driving. On Sat. those concrete barriers that have replaced many mediums, were acting just like snow fences dumping snow right into traffic lanes. Media were on the air shouting at everyone to stay home unless it was an emergency. I drove from Toronto to London, 8:30 am to 11 am, just 2.5 hours. Normal time for a tractor trailer would be 2 hours on bare asphalt. Most of my lost time occured around those bariers, in last 20 miles to London.

From where I'm at here in Strathroy we seem to be on the southern boundary of that fury off Lake Huron. That wind out of Western Canada blows across Superior, MN, WI, MI, then mid western ON and on to upstate NY. Just 20 miles north of here, at Mike Soldan's in Exeter they get this full blast.