"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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Tell me about it. It's a week from Christmas and it's 60 degress where I live and the lowest it will get all week is 50 degrees."When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul0
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Where I live, somewhere in Europe, it was way too hot as well, I think the temperatures broke all records...
It really sucks, I want it to be cold!THANK YOU, LOSTDAWG!
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I'm horribly conflicted about the whole thing. I know global warming is bad, but I'm enjoying this so much
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 19630 -
we shouldn't even need global warming to compell us enough to change,...you're a real hooker. im gonna slap you in public.
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Who said global warming was bad? people are shopping more!
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.0 -
hippiemom wrote:I'm horribly conflicted about the whole thing. I know global warming is bad, but I'm enjoying this so much
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..."L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers"
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it's snowing here in the southwest deserts.0
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qtegirl wrote:Who said global warming was bad? people are shopping more!
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.
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 "L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers"
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It might be fun for some people but I truly hate it. Summer is almost unbearable as it is, now winter is going to be hotter...THANK YOU, LOSTDAWG!
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I miss having snow for Christmas!!!0
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Well, I moved from Northeastern Pennsylvani to Southeast Texas just so I WOULDN'T have snow in the winter.
And I'm loving it so far!0 -
It rarely snows here before Christmas, but I don't ever remember putting up my Christmas lights while wearing shorts and a long sleeve t-shirt. I was really looking forward to some good snow fall totals here in the Northeast so my son and I could hit the slopes."When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul0
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it's 75 in central VA today turn on the AC if global warming is getting too much for you make sure the fortune that you seek...is the fortune that you need0
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So now we're taking a pocket of unseasonably warm weather somewhere and using it as a sign?
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'll use the magic word - let's just shut the fuck up, please." EV, 04/13/080 -
i hate weather patterns like these we are in december i wan't frigid weather when it's summer i wan't it baking hot fuck 50's in december ........jesus greets me looks just like me ....0
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It's really warm near DC, too. At first I think it's global warming, and part of me still does, then I try to find trends . . . for instance the article referenced hot temperatures in 1984. It's probably still a part of global warming, but I'm trying to figure out why this year. The summer was very dry that's for sure. I remember it raining much more in other summers. That may have nothing to do with it. I love meteorology! I plan on reading some books on it this year.
I want snow, too. I can run outside now, though. I'm definitely conflicted
There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird0 -
jeffbr wrote:So now we're taking a pocket of unseasonably warm weather somewhere and using it as a sign?
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.
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 ...0 -
I live in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario (West of Toronto) and I, for one, enjoy the lack of snow. I hate our winters that start in October and last til June. My family would move but we have way too many family ties in the area.
(VIGOROUSLY KNOCKING ON WOOD TO KEEP THIS NICE WEATHER GOING)0 -
polaris wrote: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 ...
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."I'll use the magic word - let's just shut the fuck up, please." EV, 04/13/080 -
i am a big fan of global warming......
hopefully Chicago turns into Maui in the next few years........Take me piece by piece.....
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....0
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