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post #1 of 131
12/1/09 at 1:07pm
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Let's get this going.

After a brilliant two days of getting chinook weather it looks like winter has settled in my part of the world. I had to brush off the cars this morning, check the road reports plus bundle up the 19 month old.

The good news is that the skating rinks should be open soon.
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post #2 of 131
12/1/09 at 1:09pm
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post #3 of 131
12/1/09 at 1:12pm
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Originally Posted by Ryan S~ View Post
Let's get this going.

After a brilliant two days of getting chinook weather it looks like winter has settled in my part of the world. I had to brush off the cars this morning, check the road reports plus bundle up the 19 month old.

The good news is that the skating rinks should be open soon.
Oh I hear you. I too have to bundle the baby up. Oh the fun!

My husky is really happy right now. Really.
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post #4 of 131
12/1/09 at 1:18pm
We had one of those rare 'Indian Summer' Novembers here in MN. It was glorious, with highs in the 50s and 60s and absolutely NO SNOW in the Twin Cities metro area. Today is probably our last day of good weather, as we're supposed to have a cold front move in tomorrow and deliver us 30 degree high temps. Oh well...
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post #5 of 131
12/1/09 at 1:19pm
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Oh I hear you. I too have to bundle the baby up. Oh the fun!

My husky is really happy right now. Really.
I love watching huskies run around in the snow. Snout first into every snow bank.

Do you get the lecture from your wife, Martin? Y'know, are you sure the baby has enough layers on? This is as she looks at Miss K who is layered in long underwear, flannel lined jeans, three shirts, a parka, mitts, a toque and a balnket in the car. I try to explain that being from Saskatchewan she should be happy that I've dressed K in more than shorts and a scarf because -3 ain't that cold.
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post #6 of 131
12/1/09 at 1:31pm
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I love watching huskies run around in the snow. Snout first into every snow bank.

Do you get the lecture from your wife, Martin? Y'know, are you sure the baby has enough layers on? This is as she looks at Miss K who is layered in long underwear, flannel lined jeans, three shirts, a parka, mitts, a toque and a balnket in the car. I try to explain that being from Saskatchewan she should be happy that I've dressed K in more than shorts and a scarf because -3 ain't that cold.

I did, but from my mom.

But you guys get the dry cold. We get the goddamned humidity cold. Dry cold is cool. No matter how many layers there is, when it's humid, there's no avail. I'll take a good -30 before a -10 with a heavy humidity factor that makes it creeps into your bones.
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post #7 of 131
12/1/09 at 1:32pm
I think we've had our two days of winter already.
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post #8 of 131
12/1/09 at 1:36pm
Snowed this morning, but it was light and the first snow we've had this year. I'm pretty content.

Now, I'm flying to Grande Prairie Alberta for Christmas and I hear that is pretty well snow packed so I'd better get over that whole content thing pretty quickly.
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post #9 of 131
12/1/09 at 1:41pm
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I think we've had our two days of winter already.
Oh hush. You have nothing to contribute to this thread, you...you...FLORIDIAN.
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post #10 of 131
12/1/09 at 1:42pm
I'll take snow over hurricanes anytime. And I hate humidity, so that doesn't help me like Florida.
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post #11 of 131
12/1/09 at 1:44pm
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Oh hush. You have nothing to contribute to this thread, you...you...FLORIDIAN.
High today? 78. High tomorrow? 82. Damn these Floridian winters. Damn them to heck.
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post #12 of 131
12/1/09 at 1:48pm
Not really any winter weather yet. It'll hopefully be the first time in a while where I don't have to trudge through a bunch of snow to get my Christmas tree. Although I do admit that it won't be quite the same without it.
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post #13 of 131
12/1/09 at 2:05pm
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Originally Posted by Martin Savage View Post
But you guys get the dry cold. We get the goddamned humidity cold. Dry cold is cool. No matter how many layers there is, when it's humid, there's no avail. I'll take a good -30 before a -10 with a heavy humidity factor that makes it creeps into your bones.
I agree with you for the most part. Once you get below -5 with humidity you can never get warm again. I just hate hearing the Vancouver residents complaining about -1 with humidity and saying that it's a real cold not like the dry stuff in the prairies.. Trust me -45 (back in Saskatchewan) was pretty damn cold.

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Now, I'm flying to Grande Prairie Alberta for Christmas and I hear that is pretty well snow packed so I'd better get over that whole content thing pretty quickly.
Dear god, man, were you bad or something?
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post #14 of 131
12/1/09 at 2:11pm
No real winter weather in NYC. We had the fifth warmest November on record with an average of 52 degrees.

I'm not ready for winter, so I'm okay with this in theory. But what this really means is, like last year, winter won't kick in 'til February causing the weather to stay frigid through April. I don't like winter infiltrating my spring.

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Originally Posted by HBarr View Post
High today? 78. High tomorrow? 82. Damn these Floridian winters. Damn them to heck.
I want to go to there! Though having grown up in Florida, I don't envy the summer weather.

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Originally Posted by Ryan S~ View Post
I agree with you for the most part. Once you get below -5 with humidity you can never get warm again. I just hate hearing the Vancouver residents complaining about -1 with humidity and saying that it's a real cold not like the dry stuff in the prairies.. Trust me -45 (back in Saskatchewan) was pretty damn cold.
This reads like gibberish. I have no idea what any of this means. Nor do I want to live anywhere where I would have to.
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post #15 of 131
12/1/09 at 2:44pm
Little bit of black ice this morning; a Tracker and a Cobalt in the ditch on my way to work. Our weekend forecast shows snow and low thirties, probably from the front that Judas mentioned. Whoopee shit.
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post #16 of 131
12/1/09 at 2:48pm
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Dear god, man, were you bad or something?
Family moved up there. Went from Minot, North Dakota to Grande Prairie, Alberta. My dad apparently just loves being the liberal progressive minister in very conservative parts of the world (at least from what I understand about Alberta. I haven't been there yet).

I'm not exactly thrilled either.
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post #17 of 131
12/1/09 at 3:16pm
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This reads like gibberish. I have no idea what any of this means. Nor do I want to live anywhere where I would have to.
That would be The Rest of the Planet, who are using the easier to understand and much more precise Celsius degree. Anyway, Ryan said it's fucking cold where he's at.

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Originally Posted by Ryan S~ View Post
I agree with you for the most part. Once you get below -5 with humidity you can never get warm again. I just hate hearing the Vancouver residents complaining about -1 with humidity and saying that it's a real cold not like the dry stuff in the prairies.. Trust me -45 (back in Saskatchewan) was pretty damn cold.

Oh I agree -45 is cold, but I still like it more than humid cold.
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post #18 of 131
12/1/09 at 3:36pm
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Oh hush. You have nothing to contribute to this thread, you...you...FLORIDIAN.
Hey, we got down into the 40s Thanksgiving night.
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post #19 of 131
12/1/09 at 3:43pm
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Hey, we got down into the 40s Thanksgiving night.
luxury.
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post #20 of 131
12/1/09 at 3:45pm
Snow on the forecast for Friday in Houston. Third time in five years for us to get snow if it happens.
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post #21 of 131
12/1/09 at 4:02pm
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This reads like gibberish. I have no idea what any of this means. Nor do I want to live anywhere where I would have to.
Yeah, weather has it's complete and separate style up here in Canada. We take it very seriously. Weather can and will kill you in my part of the world. The year I left Saskatoon to move to the Kootenays we got a week of sub -50C (-58F) temperatures. That was before windchill was taken in to affect. Exposed flesh will freeze in 30 seconds.

And you're right. No one should have to live here. Yet we do. We're a crazy, hearty bunch up here.
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post #22 of 131
12/1/09 at 4:04pm
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Family moved up there. Went from Minot, North Dakota to Grande Prairie, Alberta. My dad apparently just loves being the liberal progressive minister in very conservative parts of the world (at least from what I understand about Alberta. I haven't been there yet).
Conservative doesn't even begin to cover it. Batshit insane is closer to the truth of it.

I hope you survive GP, man, it's not a pretty nor fun place to be
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post #23 of 131
12/1/09 at 5:08pm
It warmed up so its completely gone now, but waking up this morning to about half an inch of the fluffy stuff on the ground was natures two minute warning that Mother Nature would be handing out the beatings any day now.
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post #24 of 131
12/1/09 at 5:30pm
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Originally Posted by Ryan S~ View Post
Conservative doesn't even begin to cover it. Batshit insane is closer to the truth of it.

I hope you survive GP, man, it's not a pretty nor fun place to be
Been to Bonnyville a couple of times, guess that's in the other direction.
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post #25 of 131
12/1/09 at 6:29pm
Low 40s at night. Low 60s during the day. No snow to speak of yet.
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post #26 of 131
12/1/09 at 6:47pm
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Originally Posted by Subotai View Post
Been to Bonnyville a couple of times, guess that's in the other direction.
If you keep heading east from Bonnyville at least you start to see trees at some point. You head out east from GP and you end up in No Man's Land.
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post #27 of 131
12/4/09 at 12:55pm
2-5" of snow today. It started falling around 7 this morning. Earliest snowfall ever in Houston, and could be one of the heaviest.
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post #28 of 131
12/4/09 at 1:00pm
People drive like assholes here in the best of times. Don't want to be on the road today when our "blizzard" hits.
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post #29 of 131
12/4/09 at 1:02pm
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2-5" of snow today. It started falling around 7 this morning. Earliest snowfall ever in Houston, and could be one of the heaviest.
Man, that sucks. We've had some light flurries over the last two days but that's it.
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post #30 of 131
12/4/09 at 1:06pm
We're expecting snow here in Austin today too. Like Nordling says, you reeeeaalllly don't want to be on the road with a bunch of people who don't know how to drive in the rain, let alone a light snowfall. Staying put as much as possible today.
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post #31 of 131
12/4/09 at 1:08pm
I lived in Houston from 1980-1986. I think that it snowed twice while I was there, and it NEVER got above an inch in accumulation. Does they still shut the city down (close schools and businesses) if they spot a snowflake?
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post #32 of 131
12/4/09 at 1:10pm
I had to wear a long sleeved shirt today this is a disaster >: (
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post #33 of 131
12/4/09 at 1:15pm
If it snows where you're at, Jake, that's some Roland Emmerich level disaster shit there. CAN YOU OUTRUN THE COLD?!?
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post #34 of 131
12/4/09 at 1:22pm
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Originally Posted by Judas Booth View Post
I lived in Houston from 1980-1986. I think that it snowed twice while I was there, and it NEVER got above an inch in accumulation. Does they still shut the city down (close schools and businesses) if they spot a snowflake?
It sometimes only takes the merest possibility of a potential snowflake. There's already one local school district set for early release today, and not a single flake has fallen. Surrounding areas have already had snow, but nothing in my end of town yet.
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post #35 of 131
12/4/09 at 2:12pm
Even in DC, I remember I was supposed to interview a guy for a position and twice we canceled his interview because it *MIGHT* snow (which it consequently did not). It was kind of ridiculous.
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post #36 of 131
12/4/09 at 2:21pm
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People drive like assholes here in the best of times. Don't want to be on the road today when our "blizzard" hits.
The problem won't be the snow. It'll be the ice on the highways. Houston interchanges are pretty high (what were they thinking on all those Beltway 8 interchanges) and also have nice curved sections to merge into other highways. Get just a little ice on those and cars will be everywhere. Maybe 5% of Houstonians know how to drive in ice.

I'd always prefer the cold rainy slick days over the gully washers that turn the highways into rivers though.
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post #37 of 131
12/4/09 at 2:34pm
We Canadian will ignore your ass until you start complaining about 2 to 5 feet of snow. Fuck those inches. And beside, consider this a preparation for the next ice age.
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post #38 of 131
12/4/09 at 3:12pm
The Canadians will rule us all during the next ice age.

Had to bust out the cable knit tights today (feels like 11 degrees). I pity all of you because, as men, you will never have the pleasure and joy of wearing them. Cable knit tights and cloche hats - you poor, poor things.
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post #39 of 131
12/4/09 at 3:29pm
Yea Houston is basically shutting down. My sister got off at 10:30 this morning because so many people were flipping out about driving in snow. She just sent me a text, and she is sitting at a window booth eating enchiladas in a taqueria. She lived in Alaska a few years and is laughing at all this. And my co-workers are flipping out as well. Wish I had pictures of me in front of 12 foot snow drifts at my old place in Toronto. It is pretty damn heavy for Houston though. I would not at all be shocked to hear we hit that 5" mark. The houses outside my office window went from clear to a very nice thick layer of snow in 30 minutes.

Really want to be outside making snowmen.

EDIT: And yes, the freeways are fucked. Ice is already forming on the many overpasses. If you've been to Houston you know how many there are. Luckily my office is just 4 exits from my house.
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post #40 of 131
12/4/09 at 4:25pm
It doesn't matter how used to snow you are, if you don't have the right tires on your car you're hosed.
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post #41 of 131
12/4/09 at 4:29pm
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We Canadian will ignore your ass until you start complaining about 2 to 5 feet of snow. Fuck those inches. And beside, consider this a preparation for the next ice age.
I don't like Jake or HBarr very much right now. Dickson can die, too.

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Originally Posted by Waether Canada
Snowfall will intensify Friday evening for much of Alberta, with sustained winds approaching 40 km/h at this time. This combination will likely result in widespread near-blizzard conditions for Friday evening and through the overnight. Local heavier bursts of snow could result in near-zero visibilities and very hazardous driving conditions.


Total snowfall accumulations: 10 to 20 cm, higher totals in snowdrifts and heavier bursts. Windchill values will approach -20C for Friday night through Saturday.
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Highway alert: R C M P in the Calgary area are asking motorists to stay off of the highways. The Queen Elizabeth Highway 2, northbound and southbound is closed between Calgary and Airdrie because of a motor vehicle collision. Highway 2 at the highway 7 intersection near Okotoks is closed due to a multiple vehicle pile-up.
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post #42 of 131
12/4/09 at 4:32pm
Hey, I carry my hurricane burden with pride. Also it's 58 F and rainy here. No shorts for me tonight. *wonders where my heavy blanket might be*
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post #43 of 131
12/4/09 at 4:54pm
The neighbor kids got mad because he didn't know how to make a snowman and kicked the body while I was making the head. I am PISSED.
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post #44 of 131
12/4/09 at 6:08pm
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Hey, I carry my hurricane burden with pride. Also it's 58 F and rainy here. No shorts for me tonight. *wonders where my heavy blanket might be*
You used to be one of my favourites...*puts on sunglasses* ...used to be.
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post #45 of 131
12/4/09 at 9:07pm
Nope, no winter yet in NYC. This sucks, I love cold weather around the holidays. I wore my spring jacket today, so I'm not pleased.
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post #46 of 131
12/4/09 at 10:10pm
Supposedly, we're getting our first real snowfall (least in my neck of the woods) this weekend. 2-3 inches, mostly slushy by Sunday AM. No big whoop.

However, predictions are running rampant that us NJ folk are going to get hammered big time this winter. Hope so, as I wouldn't mind lounging about at home instead of work.
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post #47 of 131
12/5/09 at 1:22am
It's fucking snowing in Louisiana right now. Snowing. In Louisiana. Big ass flakes. It's all gonna turn to slush and not be worth a damn. On the upside, I got my 87 year old grandmother to come outside and catch a snowflake on her tongue. She had never done that before, even though she's seen snow.

I used to live in Oklahoma, and it snowed there every year so I don't get too excited about the white stuff anymore. All of my family down here goes absolutely apeshit though.
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post #48 of 131
12/5/09 at 1:54am
Yeah, its really cold, and my car wont start. It's a good thing I have a thick coat. Fuck winter.
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post #49 of 131
12/5/09 at 2:31am
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Yeah, its really cold, and my car wont start. It's a good thing I have a thick coat. Fuck winter.
I'm glad it isn't like last winter where the snow was such a problem, and it wouldn't be so bad right now if it wasn't so damn cold. When I went to get carts at work tonight there was ice on them and they'd barely been out an hour.
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post #50 of 131
12/5/09 at 3:34am
Can't believe it's snowing right now here in Mississippi. I honestly don't think it has ever snowed like this in December during my lifetime. Pretty cool.
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