What Is The Weather Today II (No Mercury Jockeying)

[le calmar]

Originally Posted by travis3000

Heading up to 20C here today, then a nice slow fall back into reality. 13C tomorrow, 8C Friday then back to 0C- 4C range right into the first week of April with the threat of snow. Gotta love spring.

We never get to enjoy an entire spring with sustained warmth. It's always a disappointment when you hit upper teens and low 20's in March, then go back to highs in low single digits for a week or two. It just seems to happen every year.

[Nicko999]

At 3PM: Vineland, ON at 23.1C. New yearly high.

[travis3000]

Originally Posted by Nicko999

At 3PM: Vineland, ON at 23.1C. New yearly high.

If Borden still had a station, it would likely claim the top spot. SW wind...that area often took the top prize for temps in similar situations.

[Nicko999]

19C and sunny. Best day of the spring (or winter... however you want to count it) so far.

Snow depot update.













Extra sunset picture.





Low of -1C (wind chill of -6) this morning.

The warmspot was Vineland, ON at 23.3C. New highest temperature this year.

Warmest low was Goderich, ON at 13.8C. Would be the new highest low if it holds.

[Zepfancouver]

Every day is more glorious for skiers.
For Vancouver, forecasting cool and rainy for the rest of the week and beyond. Whistle/Blackcomb open through the month of May?


https://www.whistlerblackcomb.com/the-mountain/mountain-conditions/mountain-cams.aspx

[Metro-One]

Its been a really cold and dreary March here in my area of Japan.

It was finally sunny and around 11 degrees today (but still with a stubborn gusty wind keeping a good chill in the air).

This last week though has been raining with temps starting out near freezing in the morning (with a couple frosts) and struggling to make it up to 7 or 8.

In fact is was snowing in Tokyo yesterday! About 5 to 10cm of slush fell city wide.

Much of Japan is technically a subtropical climate, especially on the open Pacific side, but outside of Okinawa and the southern most area of Kyushu, it always amazes me how cold January to March can be for a "subtropical" climate. Areas like Hiroshima up to Tokyo get a good handful of slushy snowfalls every year generally from the end of December to early March. My specific area is in a rain shadow and is actually the driest / sunniest area of Japan, so we tend to only get passing bursts of snowsquall flurries a few times a year. (for the record, Hokkaido and the Sea of Japan side of the main islands falls more into the category of humid continental with true super snowy winters). Remember that most of Japan is around the same latitude as California, Greece, Spain and northern Morocco... The eastern side of continents suck in the northern hemisphere, surprisingly cold winters for the latitudes coupled with insufferable humid summers. Fall is nice though.

Finally, starting tomorrow, mild sunny weather is coming, with potential 20+ temperatures by Saturday or Sunday.

[Marty_Mcfly]

Cloudy, some sunny breaks, and 2 degrees at just before 11am. Skies should clear later this afternoon, highs near 4.

[MonctonRad]

Originally Posted by Marty_Mcfly

Cloudy, some sunny breaks, and 2 degrees at just before 11am. Skies should clear later this afternoon, highs near 4.

+2C in Moncton as well, partly cloudy with an expected high this afternoon of +11C

Our winter in Moncton this year was short and sharp, lasting only about eight weeks. I can recall winters in my youth that would last from mid November until the start of May (five and one half months).

[giallo]

Originally Posted by Metro-One

Its been a really cold and dreary March here in my area of Japan.

It was finally sunny and around 11 degrees today (but still with a stubborn gusty wind keeping a good chill in the air).

This last week though has been raining with temps starting out near freezing in the morning (with a couple frosts) and struggling to make it up to 7 or 8.

In fact is was snowing in Tokyo yesterday! About 5 to 10cm of slush fell city wide.

Much of Japan is technically a subtropical climate, especially on the open Pacific side, but outside of Okinawa and the southern most area of Kyushu, it always amazes me how cold January to March can be for a "subtropical" climate. Areas like Hiroshima up to Tokyo get a good handful of slushy snowfalls every year generally from the end of December to early March. My specific area is in a rain shadow and is actually the driest / sunniest area of Japan, so we tend to only get passing bursts of snowsquall flurries a few times a year. (for the record, Hokkaido and the Sea of Japan side of the main islands falls more into the category of humid continental with true super snowy winters). Remember that most of Japan is around the same latitude as California, Greece, Spain and northern Morocco... The eastern side of continents suck in the northern hemisphere, surprisingly cold winters for the latitudes coupled with insufferable humid summers. Fall is nice though.

Finally, starting tomorrow, mild sunny weather is coming, with potential 20+ temperatures by Saturday or Sunday.

Shanghai is sub-tropical too (the same latitude as northern Florida), and it went down to -8C one winter (-11c in the outer metro region). My apartment was a refrigerator. Meanwhile, Tainan, Taiwan, is also sub-tropical, and I've never seen a low below 8C.

The term sub-tropical means nothing to me...haha.

This was Shanghai at -8C. It was brutal because the city wasn't built for really cold temperatures, and no one really knows how to dress for it.

[harls]

Snow piles are getting decimated today in Aylmer QC.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by Tancredi

I would really like it if you could tell us some episodes of your youth. :sbarazzino:

I may have mentioned this before but in an old photo of me as a little boy I am standing on top of a pile of snow with my hand on top of a telephone pole. This was in Northern New Brunswick in the first part of the 1970s.

That snow did not all fall to that height. It was pushed into that pile along the road by snowplows. But it was still a huge amount of snow.

Still very high, though. Probably about 10 metres.

[Tancredi]

Originally Posted by Acajack

I may have mentioned this before but in an old photo of me as a little boy I am standing on top of a pile of snow with my hand on top of a telephone pole. This was in Northern New Brunswick in the first part of the 1970s.

That snow did not all fall to that height. It was pushed into that pile along the road by snowplows. But it was still a huge amount of snow.

Still very high, though. Probably about 10 metres.

Stories like yours are one of the many things I envy about you North Americans. Your memories are filled with countless episodes of snow, blizzards, cold waves, ice storms, Nor'easters, freezing rain, fog, and so on. :sbarazzino:

Living in Palermo, what will I be able to remember about the climate of this infernal city when I'm an old man? Except for a few heavy thunderstorms, I’ll recall skies full of sand, temperatures over 40°C, long droughts with cracked earth, scorching Saharan winds, and other crap like that. Well, the only exception would be if World War III breaks out in the meantime. In that case, if I manage to survive, I’d experience a long nuclear winter. :-))))))))))))))))))))))))

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by Tancredi

Stories like yours are one of the many things I envy about you North Americans. Your memories are filled with countless episodes of snow, blizzards, cold waves, ice storms, Nor'easters, freezing rain, fog, and so on. :sbarazzino:

Living in Palermo, what will I be able to remember about the climate of this infernal city when I'm an old man? Except for a few heavy thunderstorms, I’ll recall skies full of sand, temperatures over 40°C, long droughts with cracked earth, scorching Saharan winds, and other crap like that. Well, the only exception would be if World War III breaks out in the meantime. In that case, if I manage to survive, I’d experience a long nuclear winter. :-))))))))))))))))))))))))

Someday I will have to find that photo and post it here!

[Tancredi]

Originally Posted by Acajack

Someday I will have to find that photo and post it here!

:sbagliato:

[Zepfancouver]

Originally Posted by Acajack

Someday I will have to find that photo and post it here!

I found it !

Blizzard in North Dakota, 1966

[Tancredi]

ahahhaha I know this spectacular photo.... it's famous. But it's not Acajack

Originally Posted by Zepfancouver

I found it !

Blizzard in North Dakota, 1966

[Nicko999]

19C and a mix of sun and clouds. Completely cleared up late this afternoon which allowed the temperature to warm up nicely. It's actually the 2nd earliest with such warm temperature (behind the famous March 2012 madness.)

Nice evening.







Low of 11C this morning.

The warmspot was Beauceville, QC at 21.0C.

Warmest low was Lemieux, QC at 9.3C.

Goderich's low was 13.8C so it is officially the warmest low in the country this year.

[mcminsen]

First day of spring. It wasn’t too bad earlier in the day but by mid-afternoon it got kind of nasty.
Overcast, chilly, wet and blustery. Like winter.

Thursday’s high at Vancouver Harbour was 9 C, the low was 6 C.





Downtown Vancouver, March 20 '25, my pics

[Metro-One]

Originally Posted by giallo

Shanghai is sub-tropical too (the same latitude as northern Florida), and it went down to -8C one winter (-11c in the outer metro region). My apartment was a refrigerator. Meanwhile, Tainan, Taiwan, is also sub-tropical, and I've never seen a low below 8C.

The term sub-tropical means nothing to me...haha.

This was Shanghai at -8C. It was brutal because the city wasn't built for really cold temperatures, and no one really knows how to dress for it.

I think just because where the temperature range lands for “subtropical” out of all the climatic categories it has the largest lived differences. Summers all tend to be hot of course, but winter conditions range from places that I would say get good tastes of winter with snow, ice, and cold being relatively frequent, to places where the coldest couple months are as benign as a cool version of coastal Hawaii.

Technically event a few pockets of BC (Fraser Canyon around Lytton and parts of the Okanagan such as Peachland) and Southern Ontario meet the most lose definitions for subtropical…

[MonctonRad]

+6C and light drizzle in Moncton at 11 AM. It may get up to +9C this afternoon, but it will be overcast and showery. Rain overnight.