"This weather isn't normal"
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I'm not complaining, but we might have to celebrate Christmas without snow... never happened in my short life, so far...
'This weather isn't normal'
Mercury hits 10C. Balmy days make December a walk in the park
KATE LUNAU, The Gazette
Published: Monday, December 18, 2006
Ten degrees Celsius - again.
That was the temperature recorded at 1 p.m. yesterday at Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport - about 13 degrees above normal for this time of year.
Environment Canada meteorologists were poring over data yesterday to determine if the temperature in Montreal had, at some point, topped 10.5C - the record for a Dec. 17, which was set in 1984.
Environment Canada meteorologist Rene Heroux expected to have an answer by today.
On Thursday and Friday, two records were broken when the temperature reached 10C and 11.8C, respectively, he said.
"It is unusual," Heroux said. "Since the beginning of December, we've only had four or five days with temperatures below freezing."
And that has been just fine for shoppers.
On Ste. Catherine St. yesterday, many bag-toting pedestrians were happy with weather conditions more suited to Easter than Christmas.
"It's more fun shopping when it's warm out," said Christmas shopper Caroline Lacroix, 21.
Carlos Calvet, who operates a jewellery kiosk in front of Place Montreal Trust, said the warm weather has helped his business.
"But I'm more worried than happy about it," Calvet added. "This weather isn't normal."
With his shirt sleeves rolled up to his elbows as he stood outside, 22-year-old Concordia University student Nathan Oliver said it's been difficult for him to muster a festive spirit this year.
"You can't drink wassail, you can't drink hot cocoa; it's just too warm out for all that."
Frank Leclare took advantage of yesterday's weather by spending time outside with his family. Leclare, 39, could be seen yesterday morning skating around the rink on Mount Royal near Beaver Lake, pushing his one-year-old son in a stroller. The rink's ice is cooled by refrigeration tubes under its surface.
"The ice is actually not bad at all," Leclare said. "It's not too wet. I haven't fallen yet."
Both Environment Canada and the Weather Network are predicting a high of 4C today. Temperatures should be back to their seasonal normal tomorrow, Heroux said, when Environment Canada is calling for a high of minus 2C. The Weather Network is calling for a high of minus 1C tomorrow, with a few flurries.
klunau@thegazette.canwest.com
© The Gazette (Montreal) 2006
'This weather isn't normal'
Mercury hits 10C. Balmy days make December a walk in the park
KATE LUNAU, The Gazette
Published: Monday, December 18, 2006
Ten degrees Celsius - again.
That was the temperature recorded at 1 p.m. yesterday at Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport - about 13 degrees above normal for this time of year.
Environment Canada meteorologists were poring over data yesterday to determine if the temperature in Montreal had, at some point, topped 10.5C - the record for a Dec. 17, which was set in 1984.
Environment Canada meteorologist Rene Heroux expected to have an answer by today.
On Thursday and Friday, two records were broken when the temperature reached 10C and 11.8C, respectively, he said.
"It is unusual," Heroux said. "Since the beginning of December, we've only had four or five days with temperatures below freezing."
And that has been just fine for shoppers.
On Ste. Catherine St. yesterday, many bag-toting pedestrians were happy with weather conditions more suited to Easter than Christmas.
"It's more fun shopping when it's warm out," said Christmas shopper Caroline Lacroix, 21.
Carlos Calvet, who operates a jewellery kiosk in front of Place Montreal Trust, said the warm weather has helped his business.
"But I'm more worried than happy about it," Calvet added. "This weather isn't normal."
With his shirt sleeves rolled up to his elbows as he stood outside, 22-year-old Concordia University student Nathan Oliver said it's been difficult for him to muster a festive spirit this year.
"You can't drink wassail, you can't drink hot cocoa; it's just too warm out for all that."
Frank Leclare took advantage of yesterday's weather by spending time outside with his family. Leclare, 39, could be seen yesterday morning skating around the rink on Mount Royal near Beaver Lake, pushing his one-year-old son in a stroller. The rink's ice is cooled by refrigeration tubes under its surface.
"The ice is actually not bad at all," Leclare said. "It's not too wet. I haven't fallen yet."
Both Environment Canada and the Weather Network are predicting a high of 4C today. Temperatures should be back to their seasonal normal tomorrow, Heroux said, when Environment Canada is calling for a high of minus 2C. The Weather Network is calling for a high of minus 1C tomorrow, with a few flurries.
klunau@thegazette.canwest.com
© The Gazette (Montreal) 2006
"L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers"
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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It really sucks, I want it to be cold!
naděje umírá poslední
~Ron Burgundy
YAY for business and capitalism!
Disclaimer: I don' know if this weather is being caused by global warming, but I think it's terrible that the focus of the article is not the weather itself, but how the weather is affecting holiday shopping.
Well, i agree it's kind of nice, but if this weather become the "normal", then there will be much more problems, economics and environmental. Plus i usually like to take those holiday break to play outside, snowboard, outside hockey, just skating on a pond, right now people are fishing on those pond, and there's only a handful of ski station who can operate in these conditions. So it's nice now, but i hope it will come to an end soon...
edit: i also like snow a lot more than rain, and under these conditions, precipitations are all rain...
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
true, it's the Montreal Gazette, don't expect much from them... i could have post some better article but they're all in french
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
naděje umírá poslední
And I'm loving it so far!
Screw historical trends!
BTW, it is fucking cold here in Seattle. And with over a quarter of a million people still without power around here we're looking for a little warming trend right about now.
I want snow, too. I can run outside now, though. I'm definitely conflicted
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
if any region is gonna start waking up to climate change - it would be the pacific northwest ... huge snowstorms, followed by huge rainstorms and now windstorms ...
global warming ie climate change means more volatility in the climate not necessarily just warming ... more extreme weather events and fluctuations ... the overall trend is definitely warmer ...
(VIGOROUSLY KNOCKING ON WOOD TO KEEP THIS NICE WEATHER GOING)
That trend is a constant.
I was just commenting that it is funny when a single weather event occurs somewhere in the world, we extrapolate "global warming" from that single event.
The northwest just got hit by a huge storm. But the storm was reported as the biggeest in a decade. That says that a decade ago we had an event, and a decade later another event. Just like the Katrina hurricane season was supposed to usher in even more hurricanes the following year. How was the hurricane season this year? So little coverage about it. I'm guessing it wasn't quite the huge season the doomsayers were predicting.
hopefully Chicago turns into Maui in the next few years........
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
the whole idea about global warming is that people don't; or will not understand it. it's snowing in the desert so people are assured that global warming doesn't exist. the only thing global warming has to do with temperatures in regions is the weather changes it causes. for example; in 2 days it will be tee shirt weather here and the snow will melt and water the desert. my pastures will green up and i'll have to feed less hay. someone in the northeast is really diggin the warm weather and life is good.
but no one is discussing the problem this has caused. this snow needs to be on the mountains to the north to provide water in the spring and summer. it's needed to replenish the aquifer we've drawn from.
global warming changes weather patterns but no one aknowledges the real damage being done.
It's the natural cycle of this planet, and I assume of every planet.
Not really temperatures in Seattle have been just about average for this time of year. Yes, we have had a little more rain, and it was really windy last week, but that isn't unusual for this time of year. Now if it was raining here and the mountains were getting rain instead of snow, then it might be a little more suspect, but the Cascades are on pace to have another great snowpact.
nature works in cycles. a seed sprouts and grows; it forms a flower to reproduce and dies. it then goes back to the earth to decompose and become fertilizer for the next generation.
we've inturrupted the cycle of nature and the earth will cleanse itself. it always does. the damage we have caused has in turn caused the planet to cleanse itself in a more drastic manner. the earth will now wipe the slate clean and start over.
I have not even mention global warming, i know next year at the same time, it could be minus 14 with 40 inch of snow. But as of last week, it was warmer in Montreal than in Bombay... antartica is melting... last year ultra violent hurricanes seasons... massive wave of heat this summer... current violent weather in the northwest ... i think weather is derailed, but that's just me, you can still use that deaf speech all you want, i don't really care...
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
it's called "sign language"
At least to all those who say it's normal, or a normal cycle, you can't argue that we should reduce MASSIVELY our pollution productions as humans, we're really the parasite on this planet...
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thanks, I didn't get the deaf speech reference.