What Is The Weather Today? (No Mercury Jockeying!)

[mcminsen]

Friday around Vancouver was a mushy, slushy, blustery, cold wet mess. The snow downtown disappeared but you could tell there might be a lot more in the suburbs when you'd see the odd car covered in snow. It calmed down in the latter half of the afternoon and was pretty decent but the rest of the day was not good.

The high at YVR was 4 C, the low was 0 C.




Downtown/East Side, Vancouver, Jan.10 '20, my pics


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[Marty_Mcfly]

Cloudy, some sunny breaks, and 2 at 11am. I believe tonight we're supposed to get some sort of system with light snow changing to light rain, nothing too serious.

[Dengler Avenue]

Heavy rain in KW right now.

I’ve always thought there was a switchover of some sort between Vancity and Southern Ontario...

[flar]

It's up to 12.6 here after some high wind early this morning. It's not raining, the storm seems to have gone north of us for now.

[TownGuy]

11C and pouring rain here. We managed to get a walk in during a break in the action.









Rain rolling in and Lake Ontario doing its best Lake Louise impression, not sure why this happens sometimes?

[Denscity]

"Temperatures will plummet to values not seen in years."

[hollywoodcory]

Well hello there new ice age:

Monday: -26 / -32
Tuesday: -29 / -36
Wednesday: -27 / -29
Thursday: -28 / -31

Nice of Calgary to do its best impression of Winnipeg.

[q12]

https://twitter.com/waynesun09/status/1216067344260386816



Just a normal January day in Boston Sunny and 20°C
(Normal High 2°C)

[someone123]

Originally Posted by q12

Just a normal January day in Boston Sunny and 20°C

New England and the mid-Atlantic have a more continental climate equivalent to a warmer New Brunswick, while NS, PEI (sort of), and NL are more marine influenced. Cape Cod and Long Island are a bit like Atlantic Canada.

So in NS or NL when a big cold snap happens it's no worse than what might happen in New York City, but the winter heat waves are nowhere near as strong. A winter heat wave that sends Boston to 19 degrees ends up being 9 in Halifax.

Boston gets the gross swampy summer weather that afflicts that whole area. But then again their spring weather is far better than what the Maritimes get.

A lot of Americans don't understand this or where the Maritimes are and think that geographically and climate-wise, Halifax is approximately equivalent to Rimouski. Even in Maine a lot of people think Canada is strictly "north" of them.

[SignalHillHiker]

Out to Goulds for a wake. Even more snow than in town.

[TownGuy]

Holy moly! How much snow fell there?

[Marty_Mcfly]

About 40 last Sunday/Monday. There actually hasn't been much variation across St. John's Metro for snowfall since Xmas since none of the major storms changed to rain. I think the variation among downtown and Paradise/inland suburbs was only 2-3 cm. However, there's a lot more room for drifting snow there vs. downtown, so it looks like there's more snow (in places) even though there really isn't.

It's can also deceptive....downtown and areas of rowhouses don't have driveways or front yards. It's just road and sidewalk. The road gets cleared, the sidewalk gets cleared, everything gets salted...and before you know it you have bare pavement and sidewalk. It gives the illusion of no snow.

[SignalHillHiker]

Originally Posted by Marty_Mcfly

It's can also deceptive....downtown and areas of rowhouses don't have driveways or front yards. It's just road and sidewalk. The road gets cleared, the sidewalk gets cleared, everything gets salted...and before you know it you have bare pavement and sidewalk. It gives the illusion of no snow.

I wish that were the case. Most winters they clear away the snow once, maybe twice if it's especially bad like this year.

It's been all of January like this (my view just now):



Those banks are easily taller than me, though it doesn't look it from the second floor.

Even when they clear it, they really only do the parts of the street you would park on. They've never, ever cleared the sidewalk on my street.

Things worked much better before cars. They'd just pile the snow up like a divider running right down the middle of every street.

[hollywoodcory]

I peaked at a long range forecast and I see some hope for recovery (from the -20s to single digit minuses) in Calgary early next week, but time will tell if that sticks or the deep freeze carries on.

[Nicko999]

Peaked at 7C today. Disappointing mild spell for Montreal, I was expecting something closer to the double digits.

The warmspot was Vineland, ON at 15.4C.

[SpongeG]

On friday morning I was in Surrey, woke up to quite a bit of snow, probably close to a foot of it on my vehicle, heavy wet dense snow. Roads were pretty awful.

Went over the Port Mann to Coquitlam, west bound was open, but east bound the through lanes on the port mann were closed due to falling snow and ice, saw a few big blobs of snow falling as was going across. The police had to close it down, I heard over 41 cars made ICBC claims due to damages, the Alex Fraser and Golden Ears bridges were also closed down a bit in the morning due to falling ice and snow and number of ICBC claims, something like 34 on the Alex Fraser.

Anyway the Coquitlam side was pretty bare, barely any snow, quite the difference to the Surrey side of the river.

Flew back up north today, it was -27, with windchill was -35. I had to walk less than five minutes to where I was parked (I use two vehicles for those following) and in that short time my fingers froze, they still feel weird, my toes also got very cold and took some time to get back to normalish feeling. Within seconds of stepping outside my nose was running, my eyes were watering, not nice and we won't be getting any temps above -30 for the next 7 days I think. Extreme cold, so gross. Roads are awful but driveable, but when a truck passes its a complete white out, very scary when you can't see a thing, no idea where the middle or the side of the road is.

[mcminsen]

Dedicated storm watchers bundled up and went down to English Bay today in Vancouver to watch the surf and get blasted by the winds. Saturday was mostly dry and even had a bit of blue sky and sun around lunchtime but by afternoon the storm was blowing in. Fortunately, no rain so if you were dressed warmly it was a great experience. It's not often we get crashing waves around here.

Saturday's high at YVR was 6 C, the low was 2 C.




English Bay, Vancouver, Jan.11 '20, my pics


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[Marty_Mcfly]

Cloudy and -2 at 11am. Expecting a tiny amount of snow this afternoon. The original forecast estimated 5-10 cm for St. John's, however the latest model run has the storm tracking further south than expected, so we could end up somewhere around 2-5 cm instead.

The overnight rain and warm temperatures did cut quite a bit into the snow pack. Unfortunately there doesn't appear to be any more warm temperatures for the foreseeable future.

[MonctonRad]

Currently -6C and ice pellets in Moncton at 11 AM.

It got up to +10C yesterday, and with the wind and intermittent rain, our meagre snow pack in Moncton all but disappeared. There are now about 5 cm of ice pellets on the ground again, so I will have to go out snowplowing sometime later today.

At least it isn't freezing rain. The freezing rain line is about 20 km to our south........

[SignalHillHiker]

The snow has melted enough on the streets to run without spikes on our shoes. So we went for Fort Amherst.