What Is The Weather Today II (No Mercury Jockeying) - Page 34

Tancredi · #**661** Posted **Dec 8, 2023, 3:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by harls

we should send tancredi a crate of alaskan salt melter stuff.

ok

Tancredi · #**662** Posted **Dec 8, 2023, 3:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by megadude

Don’t need that stuff where he lives. Might confuse it with table salt!

In fact, here we only use salt for cooking but it could serve as a good luck charm

Tancredi · #**663** Posted **Dec 8, 2023, 3:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by MonctonRad

The stuff you put on your driveway is not pure NaCl. It might make you sick.

Truly? I didn't know, I thought that the salt used on the streets when there is snow and ice was the same salt for cooking

Tancredi · #**664** Posted **Dec 8, 2023, 3:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

Another good one for Tancredi!

https://twitter.com/MadelnCanada/sta...65646780657758

If I decide to go and live in Canada it could be one of my favorite jobs

Tancredi · #**665** Posted **Dec 8, 2023, 3:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by harls

Yeah, it's full of rock bits as well I think.

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Tancredi · #**666** Posted **Dec 8, 2023, 3:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by LFC

After waiting and waiting and waiting for enough snow, and pushing the opening day back 2.5 weeks, Big White is finally opening limited runs today! 69cm Alpine base, with 10cm of fresh snow last night it should be a good day on the mountain.

Down in in the Valley we will see a pretty typical December day, 2c and rain/snow showers this morning then sunshine to finish out the day.

Fantastic, it looks like a landscape from a fairy tale

MonctonRad · #**667** Posted **Dec 8, 2023, 3:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by Tancredi

If I decide to go and live in Canada it could be one of my favorite jobs

Just wondering Tancredi, have you every experienced over a metre of snow on the ground (that you have to shovel), or temperatures less than -20C with windchills of -40, or a freezing rain event leading to power outages of several days, or, a full on blizzard with whiteout conditions????

A Canadian winter might not be as romantic as you believe.

You should spend a couple of weeks in January in the Italian Alps before you begin your immigration process.

Acajack · #**668** Posted **Dec 8, 2023, 3:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by megadude

I really don't like how dead it feels rurally for a good five months of the year though. My wife just went up to the cottage today with her mom and this is what it looks like from the porch. I've never been in the winter. It looks like another planet. The warmth and atmosphere created by the foliage is gone.

Oh yeah? Nothing feels deader to me than a snowless, leafless brown and grey winter landscape. November is pretty depressing for this reason. At least a bit of snow lightens things up.

RHINO · #**669** Posted **Dec 8, 2023, 5:19 PM**

Got snow last night at my house... but not in the valley again. Beautiful sunshine and +2c right now in Kamloops.

GeneralLea · #**670** Posted **Dec 8, 2023, 5:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

Oh yeah? Nothing feels deader to me than a snowless, leafless brown and grey winter landscape. November is pretty depressing for this reason. At least a bit of snow lightens things up.

Agreed. I'll take snow hands down over that dreary brown landscape, which I still don't mind as long as its not muddy,though that could be because there's a lot of sumacs in some of the ravines near me. At least in spring, the warming air and first buds are starting to become apparent.

Today is supposed to be 8C, and sunny. Tomorrows even worse, at 10C.

drew · #**671** Posted **Dec 8, 2023, 5:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by megadude

I really don't like how dead it feels rurally for a good five months of the year though. My wife just went up to the cottage today with her mom and this is what it looks like from the porch. I've never been in the winter. It looks like another planet. The warmth and atmosphere created by the foliage is gone.

There is nothing quite like a calm, crisp, cold evening at the cottage in the dead of winter. It is absolutely quiet. No insects buzzing, leaves in the trees to rustle, and layer of sound insulating snow on the ground - just total silence.

RHINO · #**672** Posted **Dec 8, 2023, 5:34 PM**

Kamloops in November :
Ill still take this over snow

flar · #**673** Posted **Dec 8, 2023, 6:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by RHINO

Kamloops in November :
Ill still take this over snow

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Me too, snow is such an inconvenience and it only looks good when it's fresh.

Yesterday I was driving to Chatham and thinking how nice the winter wheat and canola fields looked with the sun shining over them. At some point they will go dormant and yellow, but for now they are bright green.

TownGuy · #**674** Posted **Dec 8, 2023, 7:56 PM**

Uneventful day.

SignalHillHiker · #**675** Posted **Dec 8, 2023, 7:59 PM**

Red sky at night.

whatnext · #**676** Posted **Dec 9, 2023, 12:52 AM**

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

The phone did indeed arrive today. They tried to deliver at 9 a.m. and then sent it to the post office, which happened to get it before they closed at 9 p.m. so I ran up and got it.

My last iPhone photos for a couple years haha…

I keep meaning to ask: what is the Majestic? A bar? A theatre?

SignalHillHiker · #**677** Posted **Dec 9, 2023, 1:03 AM**

Yes.

It used to be a theatre, then a cinema, I believe? Then the religious nutters bought it basically just to shut it down. Almost all of my life it was like that, just another building, nothing I ever would/could end up in for anything.

Over the past... maybe year? The arts community bought it back from the Protestants (Pentecostals, surely), turned it back into a theatre, there's a cafe/bar/etc. It's one of the very few mid-sized theatres in the city. We have lots of small, lots of (by our standards) huge, but very few for just a few hundred audience members.

whatnext · #**678** Posted **Dec 9, 2023, 1:17 AM**

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Yes.

It used to be a theatre, then a cinema, I believe? Then the religious nutters bought it basically just to shut it down. Almost all of my life it was like that, just another building, nothing I ever would/could end up in for anything.

Over the past... maybe year? The arts community bought it back from the Protestants (Pentecostals, surely), turned it back into a theatre, there's a cafe/bar/etc. It's one of the very few mid-sized theatres in the city. We have lots of small, lots of (by our standards) huge, but very few for just a few hundred audience members.

Nice. Glad to hear its been brought back closer to its original purpose. Sounds a bit like Vancouver's Hollywood Theatre or Rio Theatre (minus the religion).

https://www.hollywoodtheatre.ca/
https://riotheatre.ca/

SpongeG · #**679** Posted **Dec 9, 2023, 1:29 AM**

Possibility of snow up to 6 cm in lower areas, more in higher areas in some parts of the lower mainland on Saturday. Today was nice and sunny but cold.

Something I heard on the radio in a commercial made me go huh? it was an ad for a roofing company and they said get your roof ready for Monsoon season, since when do we use the term Monsoon in Canada?

megadude · #**680** Posted **Dec 9, 2023, 3:31 AM**

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Originally Posted by harls

Yeah, it's full of rock bits as well I think.

Still tasty. Megadude can back me up.

Haven't tasted it in solid form but when I'm pouring this Alaskan stuff out from the bag while I'm hunched over, the dust blows up into my face and I inhale it. Can definitely taste it when that happens. If it got me high I might have become addicted to it. Would be a cheap high too.