Cloudy and a cool -2 at 12pm. Snow will start late this afternoon, mixed with ice pellets, possibly changing to rain overnight. Still a lot of uncertainty.
We are in our eighth hour of light freezing rain, but, although the surfaces are slippery, there has not really been that much accumulation. It is supposed to transition to snow within the next couple of hours. We may end up with 15 cm of the white stuff.
EC's Bedford Basin weather station is still not reporting temperature so Halifax Dockyard it is... high yesterday was 4.5, low this morning was 2.4 and sitting at 3.1 at 11 am in heavy fog. TWN is indicating our next below 0 high will come on the 6th of January and continue for 3 days. These next two days will bring showers, mixed precipitation and flurries but remain above zero throughout.
One of those climate data aggregator accounts was posting that Halifax (Shearwater airport, but probably all stations) broke the old record for most days with a high over 0 this past year. The record is already broken but it's likely the remaining days will be > 0 in 2023 so it will end up with 350/365 days above 0.
This drives home the climate change discussion and the idea that a lot of the old weather data is really outdated. The 2010 YHZ airport data (30 km inland, 145 m in elevation, and averaged around 1995) lists 55 <= 0 per year for example. The right explanation there isn't that the 15 days are some epic outlier event (following outlier after outlier), it's that the YHZ data doesn't reflect conditions that can be expected in the city these days, in part due to the degree or so of warming that has happened generally. If there is a warmer El Nino winter running through January/February the record could be broken again in 2024.
The lack of cold was notable here too. Only 6-7 below 0 highs in SW Ontario during 2023. Someone should check Toronto and Montreal totals. I don't know what the "normal" number of <0 highs is, but it's probably over 40.
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The sun is poking out and it's currently 4.9 degrees, but rain is expected tonight. This morning's low was 1.8, the first time it's dropped below 4 degrees in nearly a week.
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Thought I finally escaped the rain. Of course, it still did spit today in Oakville and Mississauga but no need to cover your head. Then I hit the road and when I got to Markham at 3:30 it was raining properly for a couple of hours. Think that's been the entire week so far.
OMG, after 5 nonstop foggy rainy days, it's cooler and merely overcast. I think I'm going back to NY State to begin 2024. I do feel more at home amongst Americans for some reason: friendlier, more direct and less politically correct.
I wish Canadian C cities like St John's, Kitchener Waterloo, Brantford, Saskatoon etc hadn't built those "economic booster" high rises in the 1960s-90s. In St John's, I'd advocate for their destruction and rebuild everything how it was 100 years ago.
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