The positive is that it was warm enough today for the Piper Cub and me to go out in the evening, armed with a chipper and a hoe, and chip great chunks of rotting ice off the sidewalk and out of the gutters, to improve drainage. There’s something very satisfying about breaking up the ice, especially when you get a good sized chunk coming away in one go. Then we’d toss it out into the street, for maximum melting tomorrow. Melt, you bastard ice!
Good clean father-son fun; just that we’re normally doing it in early March, not late April.
We finally had another spring-like day here today; I was able to get into my front yard and finish up one of the beds there (I had to move the rock border off, remove the sod, and put the rock border back).
And our grass is all of a sudden almost in need of a haircut. When the hell did that happen?
Another Saskatchewanian who is happy to finally see some melting. Still have 6 feet of snow in the backyard in areas, and a uniform snow blanket of 3-4 feet deep throughout. The backyard doesn’t get much sun.
Remember that in order to convert from metric, you need to double it and add 30. So a metric 6-pack is 2 * 6 + 30 = 42 liters of beer. So count me in for the metric system!
(Mathematics courtesy of B. and D. Mackenzie, PhD.)
Well, we got a week of temps in the 70’ and even 80’s (81 today) and now we’re under a Winter Storm Watch. 5 to 10 inches Wednesday and that is after the first couple of inches melt on hitting the warm ground.
I’m sitting in an outdoor cafe on Queen Street East here in Toronto, in the warm sunshine, waiting to go to an appointment. It’s beautiful out. Short grass is green, though scrubby overgrown areas still haven’t really woken up yet. I even saw flowers in the park near the subway station. I’m watching the passing traffic while posting to the SDMB. The weather forecast is highs between 15 and 20, lows between 8 and 11, and mostly sunny for the next week and a half. Spring! Is! Here!
I was going to bitch about the 0ºC temps today, but then I saw the picture of your front yard, Piper and saw Lamar’s post about another Storm Watch. I’ll just put another layer on and go dig in my yard.
…WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO
MIDNIGHT MDT WEDNESDAY NIGHT…
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM
WARNING FOR HEAVY SNOW…WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT
TO MIDNIGHT MDT WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THE WINTER STORM WATCH IS NO
LONGER IN EFFECT.
TIMING…RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS WILL DEVELOP THIS EVENING THEN
CHANGING TO ALL SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT AND CONTINUING THROUGH
WEDNESDAY EVENING.
SNOW ACCUMULATIONS…5 TO 10 INCHES POSSIBLE.
VISIBILITY…BANDED SNOW WILL BE ABLE TO PRODUCE 1 TO 2 INCHES
OF SNOW PER HOUR AT TIMES IN RELATIVELY SMALL AREAS…REDUCING
VISIBILITIES TO LESS THAN ONE QUARTER OF A MILE.
IMPACTS…RECENT WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CAUSE PAVED SURFACES
TO BEGIN WET THIS EVENING. BY LATE TONIGHT INTO EARLY
WEDNESDAY MORNING…AS MUCH COLDER AIR CONTINUES TO MOVE IN…
THOSE ROADWAYS MAY BECOME ICY…SNOWPACKED AND SLICK.
