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

[Coldrsx]

Another gorgeous -1/-5Cwinter day... time to cut some fresh tracks...

*I will be here all week


@ianoyeg

[TownGuy]

What a difference a day makes. Had some heavy wet snow, the melt is on now but it was magical this morning. Lake Ontario was dead calm and almost glass like with some fog and snow. It is currently 1C.







This creek is always a happening spot

[flar]

We just got rain down here. Temperature is 2.5

[Nicko999]

Montreal just its coldest year since 2004 (annual mean of 6.2C). We finished the year with an annual mean of 6.5C.

Hopefully the new decade starts with better weather than the last one.

[someone123]

Originally Posted by Marty_Mcfly

^ It's going to be a big storm for us, too. Latest forecast models are hinting at 40-45 cm by Monday noon hour. Winds gusting well over 100 as well, we could end up with a Blizzard warning for the Avalon by tomorrow morning.

Classic case of the winter storm. Not so strong as its rolling across land right now, but once it gets off the coast of Nova Scotia and starts tapping into that cold water it'll rapidly strengthen and give us a dirty punch in the jaw. If it had come up the eastern seaboard over the ocean this would probably be a huge storm for all of Atlantic Canada. I know MonctonRad is just begging for some snow over there in Moncton

The forecast is on the border of snow or rain in NS. Current YHZ forecast is for 5 mm rain tonight followed by 10-15 cm of snow while Baccaro is 10-15 mm rain and 5 cm snow. These are hard to forecast but it'll probably be a typical winter storm where right along the coast snowfall is minimal while 30 minutes inland it's a snow event.

[Denscity]

+7C plus beautiful sunshine at noon!
High was supposed to be 5C
We've had around 40cms of snow fall in the last two weeks but were down to about 7cms of snow cover plus snow piles.

[SignalHillHiker]

It's raining instead of snowing, so I'll take it. Ran over to Government House to drop off some fish and chips to Dad and see the decorations before they're taken down.







This particular piece of art in this room cracks me up.



I didn't check but I bet it's called "Baymen Gothic" or something. I shared it with jeddy1989 and he had a full mental breakdown. "We don't deserve to be a province. Let's just give the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra some ugly sticks, accordions and spoons. This is garbage. Jesus." lol

[Marty_Mcfly]

Originally Posted by someone123

The forecast is on the border of snow or rain in NS. Current YHZ forecast is for 5 mm rain tonight followed by 10-15 cm of snow while Baccaro is 10-15 mm rain and 5 cm snow. These are hard to forecast but it'll probably be a typical winter storm where right along the coast snowfall is minimal while 30 minutes inland it's a snow event.

Storm should start as rain for Halifax westward, and change to snow as the low pushes offshore and winds wrap around from the north. It won't be nearly as strong there to be a major issue. More snow the further East you go, there could be some higher accumulations in Cape Breton.

They talking about a 50 cm event for us. That would definitely be a "storm".

[SignalHillHiker]

Sigh.

[Nicko999]

1C and overcast. We had some snow as well but nothing accumulated as the temperature was slightly above the freezing point.

Low of -1C this morning.

The warmspot was Entrance Island, BC at 11.6C.

[mcminsen]

I have it on good word from a reliable source that there were blue skies and sunshine to be seen this morning around Vancouver. I missed it. The afternoon was cloudy and then it got rainy, off and on.

Saturday's high at Vancouver Harbour was 9 C, the low was 6 C.




Downtown Vancouver, Jan.4 '20, my pics

[q12]

Snow not accumulating in Downtown Halifax:


https://twitter.com/77Maillet/status/1213835798455435265

[MonctonRad]

-2C and light snow in Moncton at 11 AM.

I t is very small grained snow, and barely accumulating. It has been snowing for at least the last 8-10 hours, and there is still probably less than a centimetre of accumulation so far. The roads however are slippery.

The storm is a coastal one, and NS is getting it much worse than us, especially the eastern mainland and Cape Breton. Looking at the weather radar, the precipitation shield should reach St.John's in the next 1-2 hours. At present, they are predicting about 50 cm of snow over there and 100 km/hr winds. Should be fun.............

[q12]

[SignalHillHiker]

We have, bizarrely, exactly the opposite. Downtown is blocked with snow and there's basically none at street level in most of the suburbs (excluding the higher-elevation ones, like Mount Pearl).

But, like, this was yesterday or the day before in Topsail Beach for the polar bear dip: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/polar-bear-dip-2020-1.5415301

It's insane that there's so little snow so close, especially two areas at sea level.

****

Took us 1hr15 to jog less than 10km through the snow. Normally even at my slow pace it'd be half that.

[Marty_Mcfly]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

-2C and light snow in Moncton at 11 AM.

I t is very small grained snow, and barely accumulating. It has been snowing for at least the last 8-10 hours, and there is still probably less than a centimetre of accumulation so far. The roads however are slippery.

The storm is a coastal one, and NS is getting it much worse than us, especially the eastern mainland and Cape Breton. Looking at the weather radar, the precipitation shield should reach St.John's in the next 1-2 hours. At present, they are predicting about 50 cm of snow over there and 100 km/hr winds. Should be fun.............

Latest models have backed off on 50 and pushing towards 40. We've been saved?

[MonctonRad]

Originally Posted by q12

Yes, well, the image below clearly demonstrates this to be an ocean storm, with the majority of effects being to coastal NS, and, as the storm moves NE, to Cape Breton and then to the Burin and Avalon peninsulas.



The centre of low pressure is currently due south of Halifax. The colour scale is for total precipitable water. There is a large band of precipitation just offshore. If the storm had deviated even 30-40 km to the west, Halifax could have been in trouble.

As for Moncton, you can see that the prevailing circulation for us is NNE off of the Gulf of St Lawrence, and, what little precipitation we are currently getting is "sea effect" rather than systemic. This has been pretty light so far.

[someone123]

It's snowing in Halifax now I think but there might not be much accumulation.

It can be genuinely hard to figure out what conditions are there due to all the confusion about any storm anywhere in Atlantic Canada being treated like a huge blizzard and the lack of clarity about where they are talking about (downtown vs. airport vs. some random place 100 km that got more snow and averages 2-3x the snowfall over the winter). It is standard to talk like the Maritimes are blanketed in huge amounts of snow and being relentlessly pounded by storms (err, "weather bombs"!) when there is 0 snow in the region's biggest city. You cannot listen to the chatter and predict what it will be like when you are there or what it will look like on a webcam.

The conditions happening there today seem unremarkable. They're calling for 5-10 cm of snow and 20 km/h winds during the storm gusting to 60 later, and it's January 5.

[Denscity]

More snow in the forecast:

2-4 cms today
2-4 cms tonight
Monday 5-10 cms
Monday night "snow"
Highs +2 0
Lows -3 0

[MonctonRad]

The Maritimes are certainly not a homogenous singularity when it comes to winter weather, that's for damned sure. I certainly learned that driving back and forth from Halifax to Charlottetown, or from Moncton to Antigonish, or Moncton to Charlottetown, which I frequently did when going to university, or visiting the in-laws when the kids were small. You knew where the danger areas were, or where the weather was likely to abruptly change. You learned this by experience.