The Weather Thread

[Bubba]

Blizzard conditions are have developed in parts of southern Manitoba this Friday morning.

Very strong northerly winds gusting as high as 90 km/h will give very poor visibility in snow and blowing snow.

Winnipeg Temp at 9 am is -6 and is expected to drop to -25 tomorrow morning.

Thankfully, I don't have to leave my apartment today.

[Revelations]

Warmest and least amount of snow I've seen in the Okanagan since we moved here. Getting around -2 at nights and think the coldest has been -6 all year. Days are all +2 to +6.

Hopefully you can just stay put Bubba, sounds like a nasty storm!

[Bubba]

Hopefully you can just stay put Bubba, sounds like a nasty storm!

The blizzard conditions were gone by Friday evening, replaced now by bitter cold wind chills in the -40 range. I do have to go out today, but just to run a few errands.

Things got ugly on local highways.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/article/blizzard-shuts-down-highways-leads-to-numerous-pileups-on-manitoba-highways/

[TheHire]

About to hit a polar vortex here in TO... thank god for remote start.

[Blizzard]

20 cm of snow here yesterday in the Laurentians with daytime highs over the next few days around -20. Overnight lows should be around -30. Brrrr... I think this is the coldest it's been in 2 years here. It's typical to have a couple nights each year around -30 but last winter (the winter that barely happened) I don't think it went below -20 more than a few times.

[Bubba]

Tuesday's snow cover map showing the result from the historic winter storm along the Gulf Coast. The system is moving off the East coast today.

[Johnnymac]

Was crazy cold this morning, car was saying -27.  The clutch was like shifting in molasses and was by far the worst fuel economy on this drive ever at just shy of 12L/100km.  Did have to start and let it warm up for about 5 minutes, which is the first time we have had to do it now that we have the carport.

[Firm]

I came here knowing that Bubba would have a snow cover map. 6" of snow in Pensacola is unheard of...It was 15F here, so about -9C, in SW Tennessee when I got into the car this morning. Definitely the coldest I've felt since leaving Canada...We were lucky that there's been no wind, which makes the temperatures a lot more hospitable.

It's silly from a Canadian perspective, but infrastructure here isn't built for this type of cold, pipes burst because houses/buildings have them run in exterior walls, furnaces running 24/7 to keep up, grid is stressed from people running electric heat, etc. We've been pretty fortunate, dripping the taps has prevented any pipe bursts, our power has been reliable and the house stays warm....even though one of the three furnaces, the one for the main floor kitchen/lobby area has been running constantly.

[Bubba]

I came here knowing that Bubba would have a snow cover map.

I'm predictable that way. 

After enduring wind chills of about -40 for a few days this past weekend, this was a welcome sight in the extended forecast.
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[Bridgecity]

Weather has been brutal, been in a deep freeze for over a week and it just keeps on. Forecasting -40C tonight, and -45C tomorrow night. That's without the windchill. Looks like it's supposed to break by Thursday.  I may break before then

[Tortoise]

At least its a dry cold??

Ottawa doesn't quite get the frigid temps it used to.  While we haven't had a day above freezing since New Years, I don't think the ambient temperatures has dropped below -25.

The snow though, holy hell we have a lot of snow.

[Blizzard]

Absurd amount of snow in Montreal over the past week. 35 cm on Thursday followed by another 40 cm on Sunday, along with crazy winds. There hasn't been this much snowfall in such a short time since the 1940s apparently. The suburbs are mostly passable, since they generally push snow to the side and they're efficient at removing snow from the few main streets that require it. Inner city though is a disaster, including downtown. Many sidewalks are completely buried and will remain so for the next week because there's nowhere for the sidewalk plows to push the snow, until the huge snowbanks are removed.

The pictures of street-parked cars buried are nuts... If I was affected I'd probably just get my car towed and pay the fine, rather than trying to dig it out.

[Blueprint]

Absurd amount of snow in Montreal over the past week. 35 cm on Thursday followed by another 40 cm on Sunday, along with crazy winds. There hasn't been this much snowfall in such a short time since the 1940s apparently. The suburbs are mostly passable, since they generally push snow to the side and they're efficient at removing snow from the few main streets that require it. Inner city though is a disaster, including downtown. Many sidewalks are completely buried and will remain so for the next week because there's nowhere for the sidewalk plows to push the snow, until the huge snowbanks are removed.

The pictures of street-parked cars buried are nuts... If I was affected I'd probably just get my car towed and pay the fine, rather than trying to dig it out.

Montreal is not designed to store snow. And urban planners don't want to hear about suburban-style building setbacks, even in areas that can make it work, to store snow instead of loading it.

[Blizzard]

It's funny because in the suburbs, the tendency lately has been to build high-rise condos with setbacks, so the developer can advertise X% of "green space" and use it as a selling point (a 12-story condo building with 50% green space sounds like a great idea in theory). But the NIMBYs are furious and complain that they should build lower buildings with no frontage (plex-style) because the towers don't build community, aren't for families, block sunlight, etc... Seems like you can't win 

[Bubba]

Saturday, March 8 @ 7 pm
Winnipeg, MB: 3C/38F
Amarillo, TX: 1C/33F (snow)