Weather 2012

[cohan]

In the end we didn't get much snow- just a couple of cm; luckily we also did not have much wind as forecast- doesn't take much wind at these temperatures to produce severe windchill! We were out doing wood today, and it was cold of course, but I wore my real winter coat for the first time since November, and I was sweating pushing the wheelbarrow. Only cold bits were my cheeks at times (hard to cover the face wearing glasses and not have them fog up- especially breathing heavily working!) and my hands only while I was doing a little snow sweeping at the end...
One advantage of lower temps is that boots, pants bottoms, gloves etc remain completely dry even after handling snowy wood for a couple of hours...

[Hoy]

The forecast says winter comes on Thursday   First rain, then snow and then clear sky and bitterly cold (-6^oC  )

But it's true, Cohan, it is much better to work when the snow is dry and it is so cold that it doesn't melt on your clothes.

[cohan]

Hopefully that sequence of weather does not leave you with too much ice, Trond!
Wet pantlegs and gloves aside, I did not complain much when we had above normal temperatures for most of December and half of January 

[Saori]

I thought that we would have a warm winter in Seattle, but it seems like that is not the case. It's been snowing for a couple of days and is supposed to get worse... This picture is from yesterday and there is lots more snow on the way...

[Lori S.]

We're getting some real winter... -30 deg C now, with an expected high of -28 deg C.

[Hoy]

We're getting some real winter... -30 deg C now, with an expected high of -28 deg C.

And we are possibly getting some real winter in the weekend +5^oC now expecting -5^oC Saturday!

[RickR]

No real winter here yet. 

So far, it has only been to 0F (-18C) once this season!

[AmyO]

Not much for winter here yet either....lots of freezing rain today though and now the temp. is going up from 35f at 4PM to 39 now at 9:30!! We need some of that Seattle snow to mulch over the flower beds!!

[cohan]

Nights below -30C/-22F; this morning was supposed to be down to -37C/-34F; days below -20C;we've just been lucky in the western strip of the province to be out of the severe windchill zone that most of the province  has had-- we had windchills in the -30'sC while other places were in the -40's and -50'sC; today at a high of -24, no wind here.... a couple views from the drive to work Monday and Tuesday.. not as poor visibility as it looks, it's exaggerated by the telephoto lens.. we had very light snow for a couple days- only a cm or two after a couple of days- otherwise drifting and blowing on the roads would have been worse...
The first 3 shots are Monday, last three Tues, when it was bit less clear; the last shot is a spot that normally has a mountain view..

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[Todd Boland]

I can only imagine such cold!  We have dropped as low as -13 C this winter..which is still quite mild.  As I type this, we have no snow but expecting 20 cm tomorrow.  Long range is for rain and 7 C next week so with any luck, this next snowfall will melt again.

[Hoy]

We got 1 inch of sleet today! Still a degree or two above zero so it does melt but the forecast says more rain and thunder! The predicted winterly weather is postponed to next week on Tuesday and lasting for 12 hours

[AmyO]

2" of nice fluffy stuff for us in Vermont! It's still only 19f tho'!! We could use another foot of snow to help insulate the ground & plants!

[Todd Boland]

We ended up with 25 cm of snow...looks like winter may be here for the next couple of months at least. Too little too late in regards to insulation...our frost is probably deeper now thatn its been for years.  Will remain to be seen if the Crocosmia survives this winter.

[cohan]

I can only imagine such cold!  We have dropped as low as -13 C this winter..which is still quite mild.  As I type this, we have no snow but expecting 20 cm tomorrow.  Long range is for rain and 7 C next week so with any luck, this next snowfall will melt again.

Todd- yes, zone 5 is unimaginably mild for us...lol-- though really so far we have had only a couple of nights in November near -30, and this week of cold- nothing really- and we'll be above freezing and sunny in a couple of days! Having spent 10 years in zone 5/6 Toronto, I have to say though, that its not so much that winter is nicer there (sounds like this year there would be pretty easy to take!)- definitely more slush, ice and damp cold than we ever see here, and there could be some quite vicious cold windy weather in Jan/Feb with fairly heavy snowfalls, but rather its the fact that the winter is much shorter than here that is most notable, and the fact that spring, (long hot) summer and fall are actually all seasons of substance there! Here its 6 months of winter and 6 months of not quite as cold, with a tiny nearly frost free chunk in the middle of that...lol

[cohan]

Today is our 'cold' day for the week- high of -5C (that's right on for normal, and the coldest day we've had in several; overnight normal low is -18C, none of those in the last some days) tomorrow +7C, then above freezing the whole week (daytime)! Some January!....