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Old Posted Feb 17, 2025, 2:36 PM
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Another 26cm of snow here in Barrie since Saturday. We have about 70cm on the ground. The highest snowbanks Ive seen in my life. Just wild.
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Old Posted Feb 17, 2025, 3:00 PM
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The snow banks are epic here too. Some are pushing 6 ft.

Today is gorgeous. Can really feel the strength of the sun these days.



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Old Posted Feb 17, 2025, 3:36 PM
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-7C (windchill -18) at 11 AM in Moncton. Quite windy out with gusts to 70 km/hr.

The temperature is dropping precipitously. It was +2C at 6 AM.

We got very little snow in Moncton, It switched over to ice pellets within the first hour of the storm, limiting accumulation. We probably got 5-7 cm or so of accumulation.

We temporarily lost power this morning around 6 AM. It was back up and running again at 8:30. Apparently a transformer blew.
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Old Posted Feb 17, 2025, 4:32 PM
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I find that interesting, because Weather Office, The Weather Network, and my default IPhone forecasts never went below -10 in their forecasts and generally fell in line with what happened.
My phone uses the Google weather app, which is pretty accurate. Not this time, though.

It was nice to get a bit of snow and cold. A lot of my wife's gym friends are from South America, the Middle East or East Asia, and they absolutely loved getting over a week of snow.
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Where’s Tancredi? I thought he’d be orgasmic over all this winter stuff!
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Where’s Tancredi? I thought he’d be orgasmic over all this winter stuff!
He's slower typing with one hand.
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He's slower typing with one hand.
What's wrong with his other hand???
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Old Posted Feb 17, 2025, 5:06 PM
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Visit St. John's sometime, I'll show ya.
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Old Posted Feb 17, 2025, 5:33 PM
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Environment Canada says there are 60 cm of lying snow on the ground at Ottawa airport. Seems like quite a bit more than that at my place in Gatineau. Somewhere between 80-90 cm I'd say.
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You’re terrible Muriel.
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There was a close to 3 storey snowpile in this parking lot.

It looked like someone has been sliding on it already.

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OK. I gotcha. It took me a minute........

I'll take a pass on the demonstration........
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Old Posted Feb 17, 2025, 6:05 PM
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There was a close to 3 storey snowpile in this parking lot.

It looked like someone has been sliding on it already.

That's a Charlottetown snowbank from my Charlottetonian youth.
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Old Posted Feb 17, 2025, 6:12 PM
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Somewhere in my parents' old photos is a picture of a very little me standing atop a huge snowbank, with my hand resting on the top of a telephone pole. This would have been in northern New Brunswick, probably 1973 or 1974.
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Old Posted Feb 17, 2025, 6:42 PM
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Montreal mayor Valérie Plante says the city hasn't had such a significant amount of snow in such a short period of time since the 1950s.
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Most snow on the ground I have seen in about 15 years, and it’s still falling.
It’s the thickest snow cover in 24 years in Ottawa.
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It’s the thickest snow cover in 24 years in Ottawa.
Say it again, but slower.

Hehe, kidding.

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It's still miserable here.

Dollarama is going to save me poor. I typically pride myself on not doing the cartoon shit for Paddy's Day, but... I can't help it. I'm feeling it this year.

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I'm here, don't worry. I've read all your messages, all your descriptions, and seen all your wonderful photos. I haven't written in the past few days because I haven't had much time. I'm absolutely blown away by your stories—maybe I've even been left speechless. Especially because here in Europe, unlike in North America, we're experiencing yet another year without winter. In Italy, even in the north, snow in the plains and along the coasts has become a very rare phenomenon. Over the past few years, it has almost completely disappeared from northern cities and from those along the Adriatic coast. The south... well... it's basically just the gateway to hell now.

Your photos move me, but they also make me angry. Europe is a global warming hotspot, and it's turning into the doorstep of the tropical zone. :inferno:

But I'm taking this opportunity to ask you Canadians a question: from your photos and stories, it seems like winters in North America are still as cold and snowy as they used to be. Am I wrong? In Canada, have winters in recent years become warmer or colder? Snowier or less snowy? Because it feels like the curse of global warming has hit Europe and the Arctic and Antarctic regions the hardest, while Canada and the United States still seem like a winter paradise—at least when it comes to cold and snow.

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Old Posted Feb 17, 2025, 8:52 PM
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It’s the thickest snow cover in 24 years in Ottawa.
I find this hard to believe.

The winter of 2007-2008 had something like 420 cm which almost broke the record of 1970-1971 which was 441 cm. In 07-08 at one point there was almost 1.5 m (5 feet) of lying snow in my backyard, almost at the same level as the top of my fence. The snowbanks along the streets in my neighbourhood were also higher than today.

There is a lot right now (definitely the most I can remember since then), but it is not really as much.
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