What Is The Weather Today II (No Mercury Jockeying)

[flar]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

Does the ferry to Pelee Island run all year? If not, do they run special cargo flights in the winter to keep the island supplied?

-9C and sunny in Moncton at 9 AM, going up to -5C this afternoon.

The vortex arrives tonight (low of -20C), and very cold Saturday and Sunday (highs of -15C and -13C). We are getting the large continental storm here on Sunday night. Maybe 10-15 cm of snow.

Western Lake Erie is quite shallow, it freezes over pretty solid in that section so the ferry is replaced by air service each winter.


Tomorrow morning is the peak of the cold spell for us, forecast low of -24. Currently it is -14

[TownGuy]

It still fascinates me that Erie freezes. Lake Ontario is such a constant. Its going to be very interesting to see how much freezing happens with the cold snap. Funnily enough I saw this map earlier.



Starting to get quite cold now. Ironically everything looks pretty frozen in these, but there's lots of wave action out there. This essentially shoreline.

[giallo]

Originally Posted by TownGuy

Great pic!

Sunny, but a little chilly downtown with the wind. High of 6C.

[whatnext]

Folks from the ROC are going to crucify you for saying 6 felt a bit chilly!

Right now it’s -16 in Edmonton, -32 in Regina, -17 in Toronto and -9 in Halifax!

[Architype]

Originally Posted by whatnext

Folks from the ROC are going to crucify you for saying 6 felt a bit chilly!

Right now it’s -16 in Edmonton, -32 in Regina, -17 in Toronto and -9 in Halifax!

Yes, but I wouldn't describe -32 as just a bit chilly. With all of the fog here it's felt genuinely cold, or a bit chilly. Today the fog seemed to be gone, the high was around 6°, and right now it's about 5°C here.

For good measure, here's a photo from the west end other night when it was very foggy.


Barclay Manor (1905)

[Nicko999]

-11C with a wind chill of -20 and sunny this afternoon.

Overnight was actually warmer at -8C (wind chill of -15).

The warmspot were White Rock and Squamish, BC at 10.5C

Warmest low was Solander Island, BC at 5.6C.

New York and Boston are supposed to get tons of snow. Texas might get some freezing rain. Pretty big storm.

[mcminsen]

Clear, sunny, dry, fresh.

Friday's high at Vancouver Harbour was 6 C, the low was 1 C.





West End/English Bay Beach, Downtown Vancouver, Jan.23 '26, my pics


...

...

...

[SignalHillHiker]

A gruelling -7C.

Neighbour's old place finally sold and is being fixed up. It's the same (infamous) landlord as the pale yellow one attached. I think he got in trouble for adding a second front door instead of a window to the yellow one. Either way, it's looking nicer. The blue is almost identical to mine but theirs has a bit more yellow. I actually like theirs more lol

[SignalHillHiker]

The Bay d'Espoir hydro plant (largest electricity generator on the island) on the south coast is completely shut down for the first time in its history. It's due to "frazil ice", which is rare here. It's basically like a gas station slushie and it clogs the plant's pipes the same way it does a straw. It forms when temperatures have been mild enough that there is no ice on lakes/rivers, followed by a deep freeze with high wind to churn the suddenly-freezing surface.

We're being advised to reduce electricity use as we're down hundreds of megawatts with high demand.

[MonctonRad]

-20C in Moncton at 11 AM (windchill -35).

It's about as cold as it ever gets here. My heat pumps are struggling. I set the indoor temperature for 68F, but, the pumps are only able to maintain 65F. It's a tad chilly on the inside, but only a minor nuisance.

The big continental storm arrives here Sunday overnight. Moncton will be on the northern fringes of the main snowfall. We will get about 15-25cm of snow. Boston will get 50-70 cm. The American forecasters are freaking out. This is being framed in apocalyptic terms. Of course, they do have weather warnings down there affecting over 230M people.

I imagine Tancredi will have his popcorn out and will be watching North American webcams for the next couple of days taking it all in.

On second thought, they may not have popcorn in Sicily. I wonder what their favourite snack food is???

[flar]

-24 overnight, that's a record for my weather station, beating the previous record of -23.3 in January 2021. Tomorrow we could get up to 15 cms of snow

[Denscity]

Forecast for Southern BC today:

Kamloops -4C
Kelowna -3C
Castlegar -1C
Vancouver/Victoria +6C
Tofino +7C

[someone123]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

The big continental storm arrives here Sunday overnight. Moncton will be on the northern fringes of the main snowfall. We will get about 15-25cm of snow. Boston will get 50-70 cm.

It's funny how far south the bad winter weather can go in the US. Not that Boston is that far south, but when it's bad, they really get it just about as much as the Maritimes do, as they're a bit south but also a bit less moderated by the Atlantic. And places like Nashville still get some winter, even though they are warm on average.

[TownGuy]

Cold and sunny. Dark clouds over the lake, which I'm assuming are squalls.

[SignalHillHiker]

Hello darkness, my old friend... It's been years since #DarkNL. I haven't had so much a light flicker yet but it's probably coming.



One benefit of our electricity system administrative bloat (having a public generator but a private distributor) is that whenever anything goes wrong, at least one is always willing to immediately let everyone know. If Hydro has generation issues, Power is having a presser before the Hydro leadership can even schedule a meeting. And vice versa.

EDIT: We're effed. It's going to be brutally cold overnight. Double digits across the board.

[giallo]

Originally Posted by TownGuy

]

Another fantastic image. I love how this type of landscape looks.

[Metro-One]

It’s those beautiful dark bands of clouds against the cold blue skies. Very breathtaking.

It’s been a very cold week here in Japan.

In my area (Okayama) every morning the past 8 days has been below freezing, the coldest morning was -6! Again, sea level, on the eastern shore (open Pacific ocean side, not the Sea of Japan side which gets the direct hits from the Siberian winds) of an island at 33 degrees north…

[Surrealplaces]

-12C in Calgary with a dump of snow last night. Looks like sunny warmer weather on the way though, even back into double digits


Source 1875 @ SRC

[Nicko999]

-20C wirh a wind chill of -31 and sunny but nobody gives a damn about the sun. Kind if day where even your nostrils freeze. So disgusted. I thought the long-term pattern had finally reversed.

Low of -25C (wind chill if -37) this morning. About as cold as it ever gets here.

The warmspot was Cape St James, BC at 9.2C.

Warmest low was Solander Island, BC at 4.6C.

You can absolutely see the Great Lake effect on temperatures as the micro climate along the St Lawrence.

WxOntario
@WxOntario1
You can clearly see the unfrozen Lake #Huron and Lake #Ontario moderating temps across SW Ont and across the border

If the Lakes were all frozen, we be looking at widespread -30C to -40C temps..

#OnWX #ONStorm

[Tancredi]

Spot on, Moncton! Sadly, us weather geeks over here in Italy (and even unluckier in Sicily), can only enjoy the North American cold snaps by staring at your awesome webcams. Plus, Europe and the Mediterranean are basically dealing with yet another 'non-winter' this year—and let’s be real, even our normal winters are light-years away from the epic stuff you guys get in Canada and the US.

As for the popcorn, you're totally off track! I’ve no idea why you think we don't have it here. It's actually everywhere, especially in places like movie theaters. We italians invented pizza and you North Americans invented popcorn—actually, some archaeological finds have shown that popcorn was invented thousands of years ago in Mexico and Peru, where they used to pop the corn kernels—and we just swapped!

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

-20C in Moncton at 11 AM (windchill -35).

It's about as cold as it ever gets here. My heat pumps are struggling. I set the indoor temperature for 68F, but, the pumps are only able to maintain 65F. It's a tad chilly on the inside, but only a minor nuisance.

The big continental storm arrives here Sunday overnight. Moncton will be on the northern fringes of the main snowfall. We will get about 15-25cm of snow. Boston will get 50-70 cm. The American forecasters are freaking out. This is being framed in apocalyptic terms. Of course, they do have weather warnings down there affecting over 230M people.

I imagine Tancredi will have his popcorn out and will be watching North American webcams for the next couple of days taking it all in.

On second thought, they may not have popcorn in Sicily. I wonder what their favourite snack food is???