So where's the snow?

[pyesetz]

It's October in Canada.  I'm still walking around outside without a coat.  Temps are 10°C above historical norms, but then Global Warming is the "new normal".  Québec now has thriving blueberry farms

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[dakhun]

At least it isn't record-breaking hot. You missed the really cold weather. It got down to +1.2C on Sept. 16 (which I'm reasonably sure was a record low for that day in Hamilton). :-o It was cold for several days. We kept extra light bulbs and computers on to stay warm.

[pyesetz]

It got down to +1.2C on Sept. 16
Does anybody have a graph of actual temperatures vs. historical averages?  These stats are based on 1961-1990, but things have gotten a lot crazier in the last 20 years.  ISTR that Toronto had many days of -20 at the beginning of 2003.

We kept extra light bulbs and computers on to stay warm.
So what will you do in February?

[dakhun]

Both theweathernetwork.com and weatheroffice.gc.ca let you look up actual temps for several locations for any day in the past few years; the latter gives you the historic weather conditions hourly. But only for a few years - nothing long-term. I don't know about a graph though. And I don't know about historic day by day "normals" either - they only show today's normals on those sites.

So what will you do in February?

Well, the apartment didn't have the heat turned on during summer. I hope it stays on during the winter though. :-)

[dakhun]

At least it isn't record-breaking hot.

I guess I take that back! Tomorrow's high is forecast to be 27C, and the previous record for Oct. 5 in Hamilton was 25.1C in 2005.

[pyesetz]

Lovely-and I've got at least one more day of cleaning the dust out of the attic (no A/C up there, of course).

Seasonable temperatures are expected to return in a week, says the 14-day.  by then I'll have to figure out what to do with all the stuff in my back yard that needs to go into the shed that I haven't ordered yet.