“Atrocious conditions” for around here? I’d say two meters of snow, winds over 120 kph, and temperatures below -40ºC before the windchill. If we ever hit “atrocious,” I’ll actually consider stocking up a bit at the grocery store to prepare. 
We’ve just hit seven feet here, and it’s nowhere near the record, which is over ten feet. I for one am super thrilled that yesterday’s foot of snow is supposed to be followed up with an equally sizable storm next week. It’s spring, stop snowing! :mad:
I think the thing easterners who get more snow than we do up on the prairies fail to understand is that the snow never melts here. You’ve had seven feet, but how much of it is still there? I just went looking at Environment Canada because I thought my mind might be playing tricks on me, but no, we’ve had a grand total of about 8 days since October that have gone above freezing. 5 in November, 1 in January, and 2 in February. Most of those didn’t make it past 1C, and none have made it past 5C. I didn’t check Regina - I’d expect them to be marginally better off than Saskatoon in that respect, but not by much.
Now, this is somewhat unusual. Normally the snow we had in October would have melted before winter got serious, and normally by now we would have had a couple weeks of melting temperatures scattered through late Feb and March, but even in normal years snow from late November is still with us into late February.
Sorry, I’m just starting to go a little stir crazy, and the complete lack of positive temperatures in the long range forecast is making me grumpy.
What you lack is Finlanders, for with Finlanders come saunas, and saunas make the coldest days of the longest winters warm.
Northern Piper, kushiel, I feel for you. I too celebrated the first day of spring by walking to my car with chest high snow on either side of me. Saskatchewan is a strange place to put a province. We need to capitalize on this. There should be a pool.
Given the likely snow melt, we should establish an over/under date on when the path around Wascana Park will be entirely (dryly) passable on foot, and when that bit of the bike trail out by the airport will be ground rather than water.
Based on last year, I would say June 23 and… September 5th. The day before the big September 6th snowfall.
Global warming and an incipient glacier. People who say Regina is boring just aren’t thinking on a geological time scale.
The chinooks that make living in Calgary so bearable have been very weak this year, too - instead of a couple of days of serious melting, we’ve been getting slightly warmer for a day (and just enough melting to ice things up when it freezes again).
Ah, so it’s your fault.
Having someone to blame for things always makes things easier.
I blame BC.
You forgot the akvaviiti. That stuff will make you forget your name, much less the less than stellar winter conditions. I know it’s more of a Norwegian thing but I was introduced to it by a Finn, so there you are… You also need cross country skis as well.
I suppose Finlandia Vodka would do in a pinch.
Another day of winter storm warning and blowing snow…yay. I’m so happy.
Just saw this pic on Twitter. Yes, they do indeed know about second winter in Saskatchewan. Unfortunately. 
Weather forecast for southern Ontario says that it will be above freezing next week. Spring! Spring is coming! The sun will be shining and the water will be running!
(I’m sorry. We’re all starting to scratch at the walls here. whimper)
I’ve been to Finland. It looks like Canada run by smarter people.
Yay! Spring is coming!
Oh.
City of Regina prepares for floodwaters — if spring ever really arrives
You know where water goes if the storm sewers back up?
My basement.
The “drinking heavily in bed” option is starting to look better and better.
All of it? Wow - big house.
I trust that you already have or are clearing everything out of your basement now, given the significant chance of flooding this spring, and are installing a check valves and a shut-off valves on both your sewage line and sump-pump discharge line, and battery backup, gas generator, discharge hose and alarm for your sump-pump.
My office was flooded out last spring due to a deluge (the water came in faster than the pump could remove it, so we’ve gone to a bigger pump). It took until the fall for the restoration work to be completed because so many buildings had to be restored that there was a severe shortage of labour. A lot of places are still being worked on, and one poor bastard’s home a block away from my office lost it’s foundations (hydrostatic pressure caved them in).
We found 7.5 inches of rain in and hour and 25 minutes a little excessive too. Slightly over 5 inches an hour of rain came with TS Allison, 21" all told. The thing moved in the shape of a “4” with us in the crosshairs.
A few years ago a freak storm dumped 5 feet of snow on us in SE Colorado. We had to bring in the front end loader from the ranch to help clear the neighborhood. National Guard was helicoptering hay out to stranded livestock. We lost 200 calves when they huddled together and crushed each other. A bunch of antelope tried to hole up in a railroad cut through a hillside and got hit by a train. It was impossible to tell how many were killed beyond ‘hundreds.’ These winter storms can be devastating.
Hope things improve for y’all soon. Don’t sound like no fun a’tall.
Forecast maximum temperatures for my area for the next few days. Bear in mind this is southern England and it should be pretty mild by now.
Today: 5C
Saturday: 2C
Sunday: 0C
Monday: 1C
Tuesday: 2C
Wednesday: 2C
That’s a good 10C below what you’d normally expect. What the hell has happened to spring this year?
That is spring. In Canada.
Did someone switch off the Gulf Stream when no-one was looking?
Well, right now there’s a huge 1065mb high pressure system sitting over Greenland, which means the UK is getting easterly winds from Scandinavia (which is pretty damn cold) rather than the usual westerlies off the Atlantic. That pattern has been extremely common in recent years, and has led to several notably cold and snowy spells in winter, and the last six summers being pretty dire, too. The usual track of low pressure systems is to travel to the north of Scotland, leaving the southern UK in mild and dryish southwesterlies. When you get high pressure up over Greenland, the jet stream gets forced down over the southern UK and we get cold wet weather.
However, in recent years, those crap summers have been preceded by very warm sunny spells in March and April. Hopefully the fact that this spring is so much different from those might mean that the summer will also buck the trend…
I’d take it. Only a single positive temperature in the 6-day forecast here (+1, next Thursday). Snowing and -8 again this afternoon, yay.