When's the snow start?
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One image I have of North America in winter is snow in the cities. Call me a me a gullible fool, but I was just wondering what the percentage of cities is (or maybe where the dividing line is) that get decent snow in the winter. Everytime I see snow in the city I think it's magical - but I'm sure the novelty wears off if you have to live and work through it all. Just vaguely wondering... cheers, Chris Maunde
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One image I have of North America in winter is snow in the cities. Call me a me a gullible fool, but I was just wondering what the percentage of cities is (or maybe where the dividing line is) that get decent snow in the winter. Everytime I see snow in the city I think it's magical - but I'm sure the novelty wears off if you have to live and work through it all. Just vaguely wondering... cheers, Chris Maunde
I feel compelled to offer a response after your mention of 'frozen' Toronto in your recent article ! The TO weather forcast calls for 70 degrees today btw, not far off Atlanta. Just for a lark I checked Canberra too, it's going to be in the mid 80's... Oh, btw, anyone got a recommendation on favorite weather site? I found a link to one on Christian Gross' www.devspace.com site called www.wunderground.com that's pretty good. Snow in Toronto usually starts after Christmas, but pretty soon after. From driving to Florida in years past, it seems that by February, a good part of the Eastern US will get a sprinkling of snow, as far south as Georgia (one state north of Florida), but Georgia will only get it in the hills, not in the cities I think.
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One image I have of North America in winter is snow in the cities. Call me a me a gullible fool, but I was just wondering what the percentage of cities is (or maybe where the dividing line is) that get decent snow in the winter. Everytime I see snow in the city I think it's magical - but I'm sure the novelty wears off if you have to live and work through it all. Just vaguely wondering... cheers, Chris Maunde
Try Montreal - late Dec, early January. Enchanting. Quebec City's nice too
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I feel compelled to offer a response after your mention of 'frozen' Toronto in your recent article ! The TO weather forcast calls for 70 degrees today btw, not far off Atlanta. Just for a lark I checked Canberra too, it's going to be in the mid 80's... Oh, btw, anyone got a recommendation on favorite weather site? I found a link to one on Christian Gross' www.devspace.com site called www.wunderground.com that's pretty good. Snow in Toronto usually starts after Christmas, but pretty soon after. From driving to Florida in years past, it seems that by February, a good part of the Eastern US will get a sprinkling of snow, as far south as Georgia (one state north of Florida), but Georgia will only get it in the hills, not in the cities I think.
80 in Canberra? Oh man... I know everyone in Oz gives Canberra a hard time, but if you want the epitome of a nice day, hang out in Canberra in the spring time. sigh... cheers, Chris Maunde
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One image I have of North America in winter is snow in the cities. Call me a me a gullible fool, but I was just wondering what the percentage of cities is (or maybe where the dividing line is) that get decent snow in the winter. Everytime I see snow in the city I think it's magical - but I'm sure the novelty wears off if you have to live and work through it all. Just vaguely wondering... cheers, Chris Maunde
My part of the North Eastern US (Metro NYC) really hasn't had a substained snow cover in several years. We get a few heavy snow falls every season, but they melt away within a week. A number of ski resorts have gone under due to the mild winters we have been having. Oh well, at least it keeps my heating bills low..
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One image I have of North America in winter is snow in the cities. Call me a me a gullible fool, but I was just wondering what the percentage of cities is (or maybe where the dividing line is) that get decent snow in the winter. Everytime I see snow in the city I think it's magical - but I'm sure the novelty wears off if you have to live and work through it all. Just vaguely wondering... cheers, Chris Maunde
I remeber reading an article once where someone wanted to visit a city where there was a 100% probability of having a white Christmas. If memory serves me right, Vancouver was less than 25%, Toronto was only 50%, and Ottawa/Montreal were around 65%. But every one of the cities in western Canada (east of the Rockies -- Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton, etc.) had a 100% probability of a white Christmas. Western Canada... the land of the block heaters.LOL Joh
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My part of the North Eastern US (Metro NYC) really hasn't had a substained snow cover in several years. We get a few heavy snow falls every season, but they melt away within a week. A number of ski resorts have gone under due to the mild winters we have been having. Oh well, at least it keeps my heating bills low..
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Stuart Ever since reading Catcher in the Rye in the 10th grade, I've always wanted to know... does the pond in Central park freeze in the winter or not? Lori Cheedl
I avoid going to New York so I can't say from personal experience, but I don't think it's happened in recent memory. A few old timers around here claim that there were winters in the 30's and 40's when the Hudson river froze over, so I guess the Central Park pond would have also frozen over
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One image I have of North America in winter is snow in the cities. Call me a me a gullible fool, but I was just wondering what the percentage of cities is (or maybe where the dividing line is) that get decent snow in the winter. Everytime I see snow in the city I think it's magical - but I'm sure the novelty wears off if you have to live and work through it all. Just vaguely wondering... cheers, Chris Maunde
Jacksonville, Florida... we might get a few minutes of snow once every four years or so, but it doesn't stay on the ground, it melts immediately. five or six years ago we had some snow that stuck to the ground for about two or three hours. the airport was shut down because there was no way to clear the runways; cars were sliding off the roads and into each other because the native floridians had never seen the stick-to-the-ground type of ice flakes. it was pretty exciting. i used to like snow until i got old enough to shovel... :
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One image I have of North America in winter is snow in the cities. Call me a me a gullible fool, but I was just wondering what the percentage of cities is (or maybe where the dividing line is) that get decent snow in the winter. Everytime I see snow in the city I think it's magical - but I'm sure the novelty wears off if you have to live and work through it all. Just vaguely wondering... cheers, Chris Maunde
Well, Chris, for some of us, the snow has already started! About two weeks ago, around the time of your visit to Toronto, we had our lovely Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. It was quite a chilly one this year. About an hour north of TO, I was closing up my cottage for the winter and there was snow falling on Saturday and again on Sunday morning. It hasn't stayed around, but old Mother nature just likes to get her licks in every once and a while. Sort of keeps us all honest :) Enjoy your winter down under. Chri
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I remeber reading an article once where someone wanted to visit a city where there was a 100% probability of having a white Christmas. If memory serves me right, Vancouver was less than 25%, Toronto was only 50%, and Ottawa/Montreal were around 65%. But every one of the cities in western Canada (east of the Rockies -- Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton, etc.) had a 100% probability of a white Christmas. Western Canada... the land of the block heaters.LOL Joh
That article must have been written by somebody who has never been to Western Canada. I've lived in Calgary for 3 years and I've seen 3 major snow storms and snow is never on the ground longer than few days until a Chinook blows in and melts everything. Who can forget during the 1988 Winter Olypmics when the temeratures during a Chinook in Calgary were higher than in parts of Florida?! The most snow I have ever seen in Canada (not counting getting face shots while skiing in the B.C. interior) are in Montreal and Ottawa. A agree with Tim, those cities are just stunningly beautiful after a snow fall, which is often. Somebody was asking for good weather sites (David?), my favourite is http://weather.ec.gc.ca/index\_e.shtml which seems the most accurate.