What Is The Weather Today II (No Mercury Jockeying)

[Airboy]

Originally Posted by giallo

It was absolutely pouring out in Sturgeon County (outside of Edmonton) yesterday. I'm visiting my sister, and we went out to a animal rescue farm that she volunteers at. The animals were soaked.

Very nice to see so much rain fall where it needs it the most.

As a sturgeon county person that rain was well and truly needed. The air smelled great last night.

The Mighty Sturgeon River Valley
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[giallo]

Originally Posted by Airboy

As a sturgeon county person that rain was well and truly needed. The air smelled great last night.

It did smell really nice. I mentioned it to my sister actually. Definitely a different aroma to what I'm used to on the coast.

Here's a picture I took of the storm clouds over a prairie horizon in Morinville.

[Airboy]

Originally Posted by giallo

It did smell really nice. I mentioned it to my sister actually. Definitely a different aroma to what I'm used to on the coast.

Here's a picture I took of the storm clouds over a prairie horizon in Morinville.

One of our gravel routes. But yah the smell is great. the new leaf smell is great as well. Or as my wife calls it. Its the smell of green.

My shots are east of St Albert

You will notice those roads are dry in 24 hrs.

[SignalHillHiker]

Waiting at the bus. These girls took no shit from the bible thumpers lol

Also, first visibly not-obviously-Mormon one I've seen.

[TownGuy]

Feels like I haven't posted in awhile.

Took these at Darlington Provincial Park, which will be booming this weekend. For a lot of people in the GTA this is where they get their first experience with camping. It is highly accessible, sitting right on the eastern edge of the GTA, bordering Oshawa. Lake Ontario is to the south.







As for conditions. Mild and overcast. Rain is on the way, though.

[SignalHillHiker]

SO green! Wow. I'm envious, as ever, depressed, being reminded how behind we are in spring - but mostly just excited for what's to come.

[SignalHillHiker]

The sun came out. And AeriaNL did a new vid just before that lol





EDIT: AAAHHH Not pictured, but there are like 12 Ukrainian kids in the park behind my house tonight shouting and playing in Ukrainian. LOVE it!

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[RHINO]

How much shit do " bible thumpers " ever hand out? Stunning and brave.

[Nicko999]

Originally Posted by DrJoe

Is it really though? Their averages for this time of year are practically the same, Montreal with a slight edge, nothing noticeable.

The last May warmer in Toronto than in Montreal was more than 6 years ago in 2018.

Some years like 2021 and 2020, difference in average monthly temperature was over a full degree. On a monthly average level, I would call it noticeable.

[Nicko999]

26C with a humidex of 28 and mainly sunny early this afternoon. More clouds later.

Low of 16C this morning.

The warmspots were Morden and Emerson, MB at 26.9C. Beats out YUL by 0.1C.

Warmest low was Downtown Montreal at 16.1C.

[mcminsen]

After a windy and chilly night the day was dry and mostly sunny.
Not as warm as previous days, though.

Friday's high at Vancouver Harbour was 17 C, the low was 9 C.





Downtown Vancouver, May 17 '24, my pics

[DrJoe]

Originally Posted by Nicko999

The last May warmer in Toronto than in Montreal was more than 6 years ago in 2018.

Some years like 2021 and 2020, difference in average monthly temperature was over a full degree. On a monthly average level, I would call it noticeable.

Right. So toss long term data out the window, which depending on the source has either city being warmer in May, because twice in the last 6 years the difference has been "noticeable" (1 degree).

[MonctonRad]

9C and partly cloudy in Moncton at 7 AM, going up to 20C this afternoon.

[SignalHillHiker]

Painfully cold this morning.

BUT - my father has decided to get rid of his regular bike now that he loves his electric one so much, so he gave me his old one and sold mine. New (to me) bike!

[DesignerGuy]

Hot muggy long weekend for Ottawa. Forecast bumped up the temperature to 27 Sunday and 29 Monday. Flirting with our first 30 degree day of 2024 (a full month later than our first 30 degree day last year)!

[DieselXL]

Mid summer temps coming in this weekend for Windsor.
Sat 25 feels like 30
Sun 28 feels like 32
Mon 29 feels like 34
Tue 29 feels like 35

Environment Canada always seems to be under by a couple of degrees so I'd confidently bump those each up 2 degrees.
My kinda weather

[giallo]

Yesterday was pretty chilly out at the sanctuary my sister and niece volunteer at, but it's an amazing place, so the cooler temperature was easily handled.

Windy with a high of 7c.

[Nicko999]

Originally Posted by DrJoe

Right. So toss long term data out the window, which depending on the source has either city being warmer in May, because twice in the last 6 years the difference has been "noticeable" (1 degree).

Last 10 years data is just as relevant as the 30 years average. The climate today is different from the climate in 1994.

After this year, it will be 7 consecutive years that Montreal has been warmer than Toronto in May. That is a clear trend.

Even using averages (today):
High:
MTL: 19.5
TOR: 19.3

Low
MTL: 8.1
TOR: 7.3

That's half a degree difference. I would certainly call it ''noticeable''

At the end of the day, generally speaking from observations, Toronto and Montreal would be roughly the same on cloudy days. It is sunny and warmer days that will see the big difference. Lake Ontario is a negative at this time of the year.

[TownGuy]

Wow great photos Giallo! Had to look up where you had traveled to because they weren't screaming Lower mainland.

Foggy, muggy, misty here today. Went for a country drive around the county.

[Architype]

Cooler and partly sunny.

Sun and dark clouds.