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

[SignalHillHiker]

Still meh here. We went thrifting in beautiful suburban St. John’s.



It still blows my mind this exists. If you’re going to live like this, you can live anywhere - might as well be on the fringes of a larger, warmer city.

[Nicko999]

Humidex reading is 29 in Windsor, ON right now.
Highest such reading this year.

[Tancredi]

I don't understand why there are so many flying electrical cables in a stormy city like St. John's. Could it be because burying the electric cables could cause the frozen ground to break them? But are windstorms no longer dangerous? I ask myself the same question for traffic lights; in St. John's the traffic lights are all attached to cables and during storms they swing dangerously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vzzs64riZk


https://i.ytimg.com

Why are your traffic lights not attached to solid poles such as here in Palermo (at least most of the traffic lights)?

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Still meh here. We went thrifting in beautiful suburban St. John’s.



It still blows my mind this exists. If you’re going to live like this, you can live anywhere - might as well be on the fringes of a larger, warmer city.

[SignalHillHiker]

It doesn’t really get cold enough here for the ground to freeze to the point of being an impediment to anything. Some areas have buried utilities (such as Water Street, but the utility claims it’s too expensive to bury them everywhere else because they’d have to blast into the bedrock an inch or two below the soil) and there are a few places with sturdier pole-held traffic lights - but most of the city has the swinging kind. I assume we have the style of traffic lights that we do because they were cheapest. There tends to be very little consideration here for any unique needs. We use the cheapest asphalt, for example, that cars chew through in just a year or two. Even the Carolinas would only consider it on a low-traffic rural road - but we’ll put it on highways. Every year. I suspect it’s actually just corruption.

[Tancredi]

Interesting! Thanks for the explanation. In fact I think it is more expensive to frequently repair or replace broken traffic lights and light cables than to attach them to solid poles and bury them. :eh:

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

It doesn’t really get cold enough here for the ground to freeze to the point of being an impediment to anything. Some areas have buried utilities (such as Water Street, but the utility claims it’s too expensive to bury them everywhere else because they’d have to blast into the bedrock an inch or two below the soil) and there are a few places with sturdier pole-held traffic lights - but most of the city has the swinging kind. I assume we have the style of traffic lights that we do because they were cheapest. There tends to be very little consideration here for any unique needs. We use the cheapest asphalt, for example, that cars chew through in just a year or two. Even the Carolinas would only consider it on a low-traffic rural road - but we’ll put it on highways. Every year. I suspect it’s actually just corruption.

[Tancredi]

In any case, I must confess that I love your traffic lights and electric cables swinging in the wind. The videos on youtube are very ASMR. Sometimes at night I watch these videos to fall asleep

[TownGuy]

10 and on and off showers for most of the day. It's just clearing now and you can tell it's really trying to warm up. Just a little late in the day for it now.

A little earlier. Some neats clouds today.

[Marty_Mcfly]

Originally Posted by Tancredi

I don't understand why there are so many flying electrical cables in a stormy city like St. John's. Could it be because burying the electric cables could cause the frozen ground to break them? But are windstorms no longer dangerous? I ask myself the same question for traffic lights; in St. John's the traffic lights are all attached to cables and during storms they swing dangerously.

SHH answered you pretty well but I'll add on a bit.

Our soil is pretty shallow here, so to get to a depth appropriate for underground power lines would cost quite a bit. It's pretty tough to dig under 8 inches here. Heck, it's tough to dig period. The soil is pretty rocky, and not too far down you're close to bedrock. There are some neighborhoods in the city which bury power and service lines, but they're the exception, not the rule. The city would look a lot nicer if those lines were underground, trust me.

As for the traffic lights: it's so windy here, that free-hanging lights are more secure than lights that are fixed to their poles. Fixed lights will snap off during really bad wind storms, whereas lights on a chain are less likely to break. The far left light in SHH's picture is clearly broken, they don't hang that free, the one on the right is more typical. It's very similar to the best thing to do with tower cranes during hurricanes: let them swing free in the wind. If you have them fixed in place they become a major safety hazard.

[Nicko999]

9C and mix of sun and clouds. Day #9999 below normal... I have lost count.

Low of 1C this morning.

The warmspot was Windsor, ON at 25.1C.
Humidex reading of 29 there which is a new yearly high in the country.

[SignalHillHiker]

Might as well go back to bed lol



Ugh. Had to run to fucking Walmart haha. It’s even worse out of downtown.

Crossing from Rabbittown into Freshwater Valley/Summerville:



Hitting Kenmount Road:



10 minutes later, at basically the same elevation as Signal Hill haha.

[TownGuy]

Wow look at the last one. That is as sloppy as sloppy can get, and then throw in a little fog. Also, was it windy as hell or are those trees just naturally leaning to that direction?

[SignalHillHiker]

I genuinely don’t know how to answer that because calm here is like 30 km/hr I didn’t notice the wind but b’y that could mean 15 or 60.

Couple more now that I’m sitting down again… at Prince of Wales, very nearly the top of the first hill up from the harbour (only a block more in height behind me; this hill is basically the extent of downtown in a ring around the harbour. Very quickly turns to streetcar-style SFD immediately over its crest). Still lots of snow up here…



But down just a couple of minutes driving and there’s almost none. I went to Walmart to get this hook and get the giant plant away from the window that keeps fucking freezing its leaves in fucking April lol

[MonctonRad]

+1C and partly cloudy in Moncton at 9 AM, only going up to 6C this afternoon, but it seemed oddly pleasant out.

I'm a little late getting into the hospital this morning, but this is only because I was up half the night with three trauma cases. People getting likkered up and doing stupid things. Currently hour 33 of my current 48 hour stint on call.

On the bright side, by my calculation, I only have three more weekends on call ever. I turn 65 this year, and will be off the call schedule at the end of December.

I have been doing call in one form or another since 1982. I think it's time..........

[Arrdeeharharharbour]

3.9 at 10 am in Halifax with a forecast high of 7 today in a mix of sun and cloud. We did not drop to the minus 1 that was forecast for last night but we did dip below 0 with a low temp of -0.2. The arugula in the garden looks fine. Either today or tomorrow I'll plant peas, spinich and a lettuce mix all of which should do fine in cool weather.

[Marty_Mcfly]

Originally Posted by TownGuy

Wow look at the last one. That is as sloppy as sloppy can get, and then throw in a little fog. Also, was it windy as hell or are those trees just naturally leaning to that direction?

Lmao, I'm guessing that tree is "naturally" leaning in that direction. Kelsey Drive is an exposed, high elevation area that's prone to high winds. It is a bit gusty today but nothing out of the ordinary.

Currently drizzle and fog and a cold 2 degrees at 11:30. Looks like we got about 2-3 cm of snow overnight, though SHH's pictures show how elevation and distance from downtown impacted amounts. Ground looks pretty much bare down there. Whether it's because less fell overnight down there or if its just melted quicker I'm not sure.

Should all be gone today none the less, 15-25 mm of rain expected this afternoon.

[Tancredi]

WOW !!! Thanks to you too for the interesting and comprehensive explanation. Unfortunately, not living in Canada I did not know all these explanations.

Originally Posted by Marty_Mcfly

SHH answered you pretty well but I'll add on a bit.

Our soil is pretty shallow here, so to get to a depth appropriate for underground power lines would cost quite a bit. It's pretty tough to dig under 8 inches here. Heck, it's tough to dig period. The soil is pretty rocky, and not too far down you're close to bedrock. There are some neighborhoods in the city which bury power and service lines, but they're the exception, not the rule. The city would look a lot nicer if those lines were underground, trust me.

As for the traffic lights: it's so windy here, that free-hanging lights are more secure than lights that are fixed to their poles. Fixed lights will snap off during really bad wind storms, whereas lights on a chain are less likely to break. The far left light in SHH's picture is clearly broken, they don't hang that free, the one on the right is more typical. It's very similar to the best thing to do with tower cranes during hurricanes: let them swing free in the wind. If you have them fixed in place they become a major safety hazard.

[Tancredi]

You can finally enjoy your pension and travel more

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

+1C and partly cloudy in Moncton at 9 AM, only going up to 6C this afternoon, but it seemed oddly pleasant out.

I'm a little late getting into the hospital this morning, but this is only because I was up half the night with three trauma cases. People getting likkered up and doing stupid things. Currently hour 33 of my current 48 hour stint on call.

On the bright side, by my calculation, I only have three more weekends on call ever. I turn 65 this year, and will be off the call schedule at the end of December.

I have been doing call in one form or another since 1982. I think it's time..........

[Tancredi]

This photo is beautiful and very relaxing

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

[MonctonRad]

Originally Posted by Tancredi

You can finally enjoy your pension and travel more

I'm a fee for service physician. No pension.

I'll have to live off my savings, but I'll be OK (as long as I don't live to be older than 92 - then I'll be on the street).

[LFC]

currently 4c and sunshine at 8am. On its way to 20c today. Going to be a fantastic day.