Tuesday, March 04, 2014

It Ain't Over...Canada

Heavy snow in southern Ontario
A man walks down the street behind traffic lights with no power following an ice storm in Toronto
A stranded traveller crosses a parking lot in Borden-Carleton, Prince Edward Island on Feb. 16, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
Tyla Crocker uses her lunch break from her job at J.C. Penney's at the Bangor Mall to scrape the ice from her car windows in Bangor

Canada...Don't put your toques and mittens away yet and keep that old snow shovel handy. The Weather Network's spring outlook — which forecasts general trends for March, April and May — is warning residents across the country that winter is expected to hang on in many communities for a few weeks yet.
"March at least, is going to be a tough month," chief meteorologist Chris Scott told The Canadian Press.
"We don't really get into the more consistently nice spring weather until the middle of April. The good news is we're close, we're not far away."
Scott said much of Canada has experienced "a brutal winter" and warned that cold and occasionally snowy weather is likely to persist, although it's expected to be tempered by "some shots of warmer weather."
The Maritimes and Newfoundland can expect "near normal" temperatures in spring, although New Brunswick and much of P.E.I. are being warned to prepare for above normal precipitation.
Further west, the first half of March is expected to bring "below normal" temperatures from Saskatchewan through to Quebec.
"The same areas that have been seeing the worst of the winter weather will see what I would call a lingering headache," Scott said. "The third and fourth week of March will see more signs of warmer weather, albeit fleeting."
This is not the news I wanted to hear. I don't know about the rest of you tough old Canucks, but I am fed up with all this snow.  If it doesn't end very soon , I am heading south for a while just to look at something green.

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