It's a very sunny week here, coming off a very sunny weekend with rising temperatures. Thursday and Friday here are even warmer with rain, which should help to reduce the amount of snow that has accumulated all winter.

The sun at that instant will be directly above the Equator, creating equal amounts of daylight and darkness at all latitudes (except the polar regions, where it will simply circle around the entire horizon for 24 hours).

The full moon occurs on Friday March 21. This is why Easter is so early this year; it's always on the first Sunday after the first full moon of spring.

No matter how you look at it BC gets spring earlier than any other part of Canada.

Edited because I can't spell.

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Through May, the forecast is colder than normal for the territories, the provinces west of Ontario, Newfoundland and Labrador, and in the northern half of Quebec.

Most of the country is also expected to get above-average rainfall.

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Originally posted by M. Spector:
Environment Canada is a lot more confident about its forecast for the start of spring over the next month, and is calling for below normal temperatures across the country.

Through May, the forecast is colder than normal for the territories, the provinces west of Ontario, Newfoundland and Labrador, and in the northern half of Quebec.

Most of the country is also expected to get above-average rainfall.

- Canadian Press

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Originally posted by M. Spector:
The spring equinox occurs at 5:48 a.m. UTC (that's GMT to you) on Thursday March 20. It happens simultaneously in all time zones, so for example it will be 1:48 a.m. EDT.

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Snow melting. Water running down the roads. Nice hot sun so even the cats were staying out.

Montreal is cold, but this is a historically long and cold winter .... may spring come soon!

Play ball !!

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[ 20 March 2008: Message edited by: Boom Boom ]

We took the wild girls to kung fu class this morning and there were a long row of bright-coloured rubber boots in the front hall -- there are only 3 boys in the whole class, and all the girls had their boots on today. Kind of cool in the context, I thought.

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Originally posted by Stephen Gordon:
We're in the middle of another 30cm snowstorm, on track to top 500cm for the season.

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ETA: more snow expected here soon, with 70 kph wind.

ETA: Stephen, I think you have double the amount of snow that we've had this winter.

[ 22 March 2008: Message edited by: Boom Boom ]

I think Québec got about the worst of it - some of the worst snowfalls blew over here. I'm not actually surprised that Québec might get more snow than the Lower North Shore, although the latter is obviously colder.

I'm so fed up with this. I can stand a wintry March, but I get very upset with a consistently wintry April.

*cries because she lives in Toronto*

I'm going out for a walk now, and to pick up some food for supper. One sign of Spring I could do without is all the frigging cigarette butts everywhere - and I have seen small children and animals poking at them - yecch!

That and the dogshit but at least dogshit is natural. Not good fertiliser though, as dogs are carnivores.

say rain rain and warmer ( +2C) the next few days
winter has to end, eventually ...

APRIL, for crying out loud, is around the corner!!

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Originally posted by Stephen Gordon:
I gaze out the window with childlike wonder, and I see

WTF?!?! MORE DAMN SNOW FALLING PLEASE GOD MAKE IT STOP

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Stephen, where are the snow removal crews putting all the snow? Are they just dumping it into the river?

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Originally posted by Caissa:
It snowed here yesterday. Keep your damn snow on the Lower North Shore Boom Boom

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The hell with you - we're blowing it all south!

temps above zero + rain over weekend, peaking at +6C for Tuesday, April Fool's !
http://tinyurl.com/2drjt5

and(!) mid-April, brilliant, warm higher-than-average:
http://www.meteomedia.com/fourteenday/caqc0363

SPRING ARRIVES !! (?)

[ 27 March 2008: Message edited by: Geneva ]

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Originally posted by Michelle:
You probably should have one of those anyhow if you have heart problems, Boom Boom! Don't tell me you're shoveling!

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Here in Kegaska, many of us have five feet of packed snow in our driveways, and really no place to put it all if we made an effort to keep our driveways clear.

I have a small truck, but I'm not supposed to do any snow shovelling for medical reasons - I don't know how I would be able to keep my driveway clear all winter. Five feet of packed snow so far, and it's still coming down. I guess I'll have to consider getting a snow blower if the roads are going to be kept clear.

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Originally posted by Michelle:
There's a snowstorm warning for Southern Ontario tonight too. They're supposed to get dumped with the stuff. Toronto's supposed to get some too tonight, but I don't think we're in the area that's really supposed to be bad.

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mark it down: snowing in vancouver march 28. damn!

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Originally posted by Boom Boom:
Stephen, where are the snow removal crews putting all the snow? Are they just dumping it into the river?

You have twice as much snow as we do - and we have too much!

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Out here in the suburbs, the city snowblowers dump it on our lawns, so we have some very impressive snowbanks happening.

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aaaarrgggH!!
I promised my son that spring would be fully sprung by April 1st!

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This spring storm will bring a mix bag of precipitation over the province of Québec depending on the regions. First north of its
track, heavy snowfall is expected over several northwestern regions of the province today with accumulations reaching 15 to 25 centimetres. Snow will spread toward the coast-north during the day.

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with Montreal above the seasonal median, +9C , for the coming week:
http://www.meteomedia.com/fourteenday/caqc0363

[ 03 April 2008: Message edited by: Geneva ]

On another track entirely, three dozen Snow Buntings in my backyard are right now feasting on sunflower seeds; here's a link to a drawing of these beautiful birds:

[ 03 April 2008: Message edited by: Stephen Gordon ]

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Originally posted by HeywoodFloyd:
I sat on the patio of my local for lunch yesterday. Still needed the heaters but the sun was nice.

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Originally posted by Michelle:
You had heaters outside on the patio!?

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Here there is a similar problem with heated "shelters" for outdoor smokers, so they can walk out of bars and cafés and have a cigarette...

Actually, "climate change" means more extreme weather, both droughts and flooding, a general warming trend but also some strangely snowy and/or cold winters.

clerk: will winter end?
a dusting of snow today
the sidewalk ice cracks.

[ 04 April 2008: Message edited by: N.Beltov ]

Since 1974 I have written the date when the ice leaves the lake.
The earliest was April 11th 1987 and the latest was May 8th 1978. I think the average was the middle of April.

At the rate things are going now I wonder.

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No sign of winter here today.

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