Comments | pyesetz: So where's the snow?

pyesetz

So where's the snow?

Oct 03, 2007 23:44

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 ( Read more... )

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dakhun October 4 2007, 04:49:07 UTC

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 October 4 2007, 05:06:47 UTC

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 October 4 2007, 05:19:36 UTC

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 October 5 2007, 04:20:18 UTC

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.

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danruk October 4 2007, 12:53:08 UTC

You'll be surprised to find that winter and snow here in Toronto doesn't work much differently than the New Jersey (New England/eastern) coastline. In fact, Toronto is jsut a hair further south than Detroit Michigan, believe it... or DONT.

loganberrybunny October 4 2007, 14:32:36 UTC

*grins* I have a Canadian friend who once tried to persuade me (a Briton) to move to Toronto or Montreal because its winters were "warm". Mind you, at the time it was January, he was living in Athabasca (150km N of Edmonton) and it had been -40°C the previous night, so maybe he had a point!

pyesetz October 4 2007, 15:36:51 UTC

But Detroit is COLD in the winter. K-W is one degree of latitude further North than Boston, while Cherry Hill NJ was three degrees South, so I moved from a place that was markedly warmer than where I grew up to one that should be a little colder (further North, higher elevation, and inland). But it was rare to walk around Boston without a coat in October back in 1970-1980.