What Is The Weather Today II (No Mercury Jockeying)

[SignalHillHiker]

Chilly but fine. Only part of me uncomfortable walking home in shorts and t-shirt was my fingertips.

Former Grace Hospital site gives St. John's that small, 17th Century scale vibe.

[someone123]

Seems like it has been a cold spring in NS but is picking up more now. Halifax Public Gardens:


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There are a lot of pictures of ducklings and goslings like these ones at Sullivan's Pond in Dartmouth:


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I always liked the big brown goose they had at the Public Gardens, apparently a Toulouse goose who sadly died in 2019.

[Nicko999]

39 humidex in Windsor. Close to the first 40 reading.

[megadude]

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Chilly but fine. Only part of me uncomfortable walking home in shorts and t-shirt was my fingertips.

Former Grace Hospital site gives St. John's that small, 17th Century scale vibe.

Are the driveways that small that the cars have to stick out like that? What happens when there’s snow?

[SignalHillHiker]

Originally Posted by megadude

Are the driveways that small that the cars have to stick out like that? What happens when there’s snow?

Downtown we walk in the street in winter, and cars just slowly (mostly) go around us. Pre-cars we piled the snow in a line down the centre of the streets like a temporary median. Post-cars we haven't really found a sustainable solution. We used to remove the snow frequently and dump it in the harbour. That's now illegal so we remove it rarely, usually twice a winter for any given street. Can't really afford more. In the interim it's just piled up onto the sidewalks.

As for driveways generally, lots of small ones. Lots of modern-sized ones. Lots of front lawns removed. Even quite a few garages too small for modern vehicles lol

[megadude]

Yeah, I see similar looking situations in England. I have family west of London and where we'd expect to see a small front lawn they just have concrete with small cars parked on them looking all awkward. I'm sure there's some examples in Toronto too.

[megadude]

Finally some decent weather, but going back to the crappy spring weather we’ve been subjected to for weeks now. Thankfully this nice stretch coincided with May long. Going from 30 to a high of 8 in the span of two days up in cottage country.

On the first visit to the beach I encountered the two girls who added to the rock collection I started. Turns out they live in Brampton 5 minutes from where I grew up and where the family home still is. Their aunt was with them and her cottage is across from theirs and turns out she lives a couple minutes away from where my wife grew up in Mississauga and went to the same school. Small world.

Anyway, like much of cottage country with the heavy snow totals this past winter then a bunch of rain, this area got flooding. Where we are, we’re above grade and don’t have a basement. Anything below the road we’re on is below grade and closer to the lake. Her cottage crawl space had a few inches of water and her friend’s had a foot of water in the crawl space. You can see a little bit of standing water still in the drainage ditches along the road and some streets you can tell were flooded with the debris and dried mud visible. There are tire marks on peoples’ lawns from drivers trying to get around.

The beach changed tremendously. There are two basically dry river beds now. That’s what it looks like. That’s from the rain and floods receding into the lake. Never seen this before. And I guess it took a lot of sand with it because there’s just so many more exposed rocks now. Being along the water not only comes with risks, but your beachfront or waterfront changes every year. They still have nice views but the beach just keeps getting worse. The sand is still fine grain but just too many damn rocks.

Behind the cottage found this steelhead freshly dead. Didn’t even get to spawn. I left it on the bank of the creek to see what would happen. Looks like racoons only ate the eyes and then dug out some roe (fish eggs). Even if those were laid in the water, there’d be no fish to protect them from the creek chub, shiners, dace, etc. that would eat them.

Some scumbag broke into the cottage in April as evidenced by the open door my BIL encountered and the damage on the doorjamb. Nothing worth taking in there unless you want 15 year old technology. But my bug zapper is gone.

Went to one of the beaches I know that is pure sand and doesn’t have rocks. And it has a pond, which makes for good exploring. There was a lot of frog loving going on. Or piggybacking as I explained to my kids. Three pairs were doing it. Even witnessed two calling to each other and then the male hop over and jump on the female and get down to business. Will be full of tadpoles when we return.

[Nicko999]

28C with a humidex of 34 and mainly sunny. Finally!!!







Low of 15C last night.

The warmspot was Kejimkujik Park, NS at 32.8C.

Warmest low yesterday was Ridgetown, ON at 18.5C. New highest low.

[mcminsen]

Overcast earlier on and then the sun came out in the afternoon.

Tuesday's high at Vancouver Harbour was 18 C, the low was 12 C.




Yaletown, Downtown Vancouver, May 20 '26, my pics

[SignalHillHiker]

Local meteorologist doesn't typically mention the Maritimes but couldn't resist mentioning today

[someone123]

There's a fairly sharp transition in the Northeast from (south)west to (north)east that happens in the spring. The same thing tends to happen in April when NYC or Boston will have a heat wave into the 20s while Halifax sits at +7.

[MonctonRad]

Currently 30C with a humidex of 35 in Moncton at 3 PM.

I spent the early afternoon cleaning up the gazebo for the summertime, then spent the last couple of hours just lolling around out there enjoying the heat and listening to the waterfall on my fish pond.

[BradFromTO]

Today turned out really pleasant, depsite being slightly cooler than average. High of 18 with a slight breeze and all sunshine. Down to 14 now with some clouds and wind.

Long term forecast looks really good after these next 4-5 days, high in the low to mid 20's and all sunshine. Bring it on!

[MonctonRad]

The high temperature in Moncton today was 31.4C at 5 PM (humidex 36). Currently back down to 17C at 11 PM.

The rest o0f the week will be seasonable.

[Nicko999]

High was achieved at 11AM. 24C with a humidex of 29 and sunny. Temperature slightly went down after the cold front. From 24C at 11AM to 21C at 5PM. It remained sunny so despite the wind, was pleasant.

Low of 20C (humidex of 26) this morning. Finally some semblance of summer. It's Grand Prix week/weekend.

The warmspot was Upper Stewiacke, NS at 32.4C

Warmest low yesterday was Saint-Anicet, QC at 20.4C. First official tropical night this year in the country. Pearson was the only other station official above 20C low (20.1C).

[MonctonRad]

Currently 9C and sunny in Moncton at 9 AM, going up to only 15C this afternoon (32C yesterday). Obviously a cold front went through last night. There are frost advisories out in the province.

[giallo]

Solid day in the Westend on Wednesday. Sunny and breezy. High of 20C.

[Nicko999]

16C and sunny. Back to below normal weather. It just never ends.

Low of 6C this morning. Definitely chilly.

The warmspot was Pemberton, BC at 27.6C.

The warmest low yesterday was Kejimkujik Park, NS at 13.5C.

[mcminsen]

Sunny, warm, dry.

Thursday's high at Vancouver Harbour was 20 C (21 w/Humidex), the low was 11 C.





Devonian Park/Downtown Vancouver, May 21 '26, my pics

[BradFromTO]

Originally Posted by Nicko999

High was achieved at 11AM. 24C with a humidex of 29 and sunny. Temperature slightly went down after the cold front. From 24C at 11AM to 21C at 5PM. It remained sunny so despite the wind, was pleasant.

Low of 20C (humidex of 26) this morning. Finally some semblance of summer. It's Grand Prix week/weekend.

The warmspot was Upper Stewiacke, NS at 32.4C

Warmest low yesterday was Saint-Anicet, QC at 20.4C. First official tropical night this year in the country. Pearson was the only other station official above 20C low (20.1C).

Wow, that's early for the Grand Prix right? High of 13 and rainy on race day, yikes

At least after this weekend it looks really nice for southern Quebec & Ontario