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Originally Posted by daud
Thought of starting a thread about weather in the city. I noticed some super interesting variances in temperature today (Feb 22) and kept an unofficial record of it from my car thermometer, realizing that they are notoriously rough estimates, but assuming that the variances are accurate:
Camp Fortune 2PM Temp -1c
Chelsea @ HWY 5 Temp 4c
McDonald Cartier Bridge and Byward Market Temp 4.5c
Lansdowne Temp 2.5c
Mooneys Bay Temp 1c.
Airport Temp 2c
This was all within a 30 minute drive from Camp Fortune to Hunt Club. The biggest variance was driving from the hill to Chelsea-as we dropped, it was jumping 0.5c every ~200 metres driving, peaking around the hwy 5/50 junction. It stabilized at 4-4.5c from there to around Clegg where I looked and it had dropped to 2.5c. It then dropped further to Mooneys bay then started to climb again.
On another note, January was approx 4c above average and February looks like it will be about 3c above average.
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I recall going from Kanata one evening and it was -8 c and by the time I got to Fallowfield/416 on the edge of Barrhaven it was +0.5 on the car thermometer in less than 20 minutes.
Downtown is often warmer at night than surrounding areas and there is something about soils etc near the Gatineau airport that allows rapid night time cooling. Have a look at Moose Creek Ontario weather in the early morning on a clear night.
https://weather.gc.ca/past_conditions/index_e.html?station=tck
I think my coldest temp this winter was about -27 c one morning.