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Temperatures rising

by Tricia

It’s the strangest thing. Early Thursday morning it was -20 Celsius outside. That’s pretty darn cold. No more snow but what’s out there certainly wasn’t going to melt any time soon, or so I thought.

Now, it’s 1:30 in the morning and I’ve been watching the temperature rise throughout the day. It’s -9 Celsius. It looks like it’s going to be warmer over the next three or four days.

It probably won’t be warm enough to melt all that snow but it should be warm enough to get outside and clean up the driveway a bit better. The snow plows made a mess of the entrance to our driveway since one of our neighbors cars was parked in front of the neighbors house the night of the snow storm. When the street plows went by they had to miss the car and this left a wide path of snow in front of our driveway.

So, unless the plows come by again to move the snow over a bit more- hopefully when the neighbors car isn’t parked there, we still need to clean out the opening to our driveway a bit better. Oh, we did shovel. We can get in and out, but it’s still a mess that stretches about ten feet out into the roadway – thanks to the neighbors car.

How did everyone else do after the snow storms?






Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, In The Garden, Toronto Tagged With: Home and Lifestyle, In The Garden, shoveling, snow, snow plows, temperature, temperature warming, Toronto

Biggest snow storm of the year

by Tricia

Well, if this is the biggest snow storm of the year – it is so far- it hasn’t been too bad.

I think we got about a foot of snow here in Toronto. I haven’t been listening to the weather reports so I could be off one way or another by an inch or two, but looking outside I’d say a foot is a good estimate.

Perhaps the fact that it’s so cold here kept some of the snow from falling? It’s -13 Celsius at this moment and I believe that that’s close to 1 F. Pretty cold!

I’m not complaining. We’ve had very nice weather this winter if you exclude this month. However I do hope that Spring hurries up and arrives. I want to get outside for walks and with the weather this cold I just can’t convince myself as to how good for me a walk would be. Brrrrr!

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, In The Garden, Toronto Tagged With: Home and Lifestyle, In The Garden, Toronto

Did the groundhog see his shadow?

by Tricia

Alright readers, give me your report. Did the local groundhog in your area see his shadow today or not?

wiartonwillie.jpg

Confused about ground hog day? Well, it’s said that Groundhog day grew mainly out of a German superstition that if a hibernating animal casts a shadow on February second, the Christian holiday of Candlemas, that winter will last for another six weeks. However, if no shadow is seen it’s said that spring will come early.

We have a few groundhogs here in Ontario that we keep an eye on, on Feb. 2nd. Wiarton Willie is probably Canada’s most famous Groundhog.

For the record. I’m writing this post at 2:15 a.m. February 2nd. Obviously it’s dark out right now. My weathernetwork icon on my desktop says that tomorrow morning will be -9 c (15.8 F) and that it will be partial cloudy with a 30% chance of precipitation.

My prediction based on our warm winter up until mid- January, and the weather conditions for this morning is that our groundhog will NOT see his shadow.

Lets see if I’m right or not.

Filed Under: In The Garden, Recreation, Society and Culture, Toronto Tagged With: Entertainment and Rec, February 2nd, groundhog, groundhog day, In The Garden, no shadow, saw shadow, Society and Culture, Toronto

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