Ding!
http://youtu.be/0E3xLaINDtY
So... ya still miss Edmonton Lazy?
*crunch crunch crunch crunch* <- sound of me going to the bus stop tomorrow.
In a way I'm glad I missed my bus this morning (relaxes with hot mug of cocoa in Black Mesa mug)
I can't watch the video as it's marked private, but I'm willing to bet it shows exactly the same as what's happening today.
I look forward to visiting this page tomorrow to see just how much snow fell: http://climate.weatheroffice.gc.ca/climateData/dailydata_e.html?timeframe=2&Prov=ALTA&StationID=50149&hlyRange=2012-04-10|2012-04-14&Year=2012&Month=11&Day=6
It's piling up huge in corners. Highways and even local roads are getting shut down by police. I think it's time to try putting it in 4-Lo and doing a four-wheel drift when going out. Oh, or maybe it's time to not go out (for those scared of sliding).
I think we got 6" or more out here at the park.
Total pileup on my deck? 8-9". Some may have been from before today. Maybe an inch or two.
Quote from: Mr. Analog on November 14, 2011, 04:33:38 PM
Ding!
http://youtu.be/0E3xLaINDtY
So... ya still miss Edmonton Lazy?
*crunch crunch crunch crunch* <- sound of me going to the bus stop tomorrow.
In a way I'm glad I missed my bus this morning (relaxes with hot mug of cocoa in Black Mesa mug)
My Facebook feed is full of snowy pics, but it is sunny and +11 out side..
http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/city/pages/bc-74_metric_e.html
attached: 2 photos that I took around 3pm yesterday, looking outside from my work (just south of University of Alberta main campus)...
OH yeah, sorry been juggling around my old YouTube channel a bit, I took some photos of out back, it was crazy yesterday
I took some pics from my location as well... I don't think we got as much snow as you guys in the north.
Yeah, thanks for that Mel. I hope your car's been plowed in.
Quote from: Melbosa on November 08, 2012, 03:02:36 PM
I took some pics from my location as well... I don't think we got as much snow as you guys in the north.
(http://www.trollwin.com/Problem/fu_face.jpg)
first time I have EVER used this image.
congrats.
We hadn't moved our second car here since before the snow started falling. I had to use it tonight so I cleaned off the snow. The stuff on the hood was nearly as high as the roof. The stuff on the roof was almost a foot deep. When I got all the snow off the car, the snow on the driveway was too high to open the door, so I had to stomp it down (I guess I could've shovelled it, but that's too much work). I then had to check that there were no cars coming and take a run down the driveway to make sure I made it out onto the street and didn't get stuck at the low point at the end of the driveway.
Ah, the fun of driving an old rear-wheel-drive Volvo station wagon with old possibly bald all-season tires. Man, I really should get some new tires and fix the block heater plug so it'll work. Or buy a new car.
I am actually worried about the amount of snow I'll have to shovel to get my cars out of the garage, as I have no one looking after that at the house. Just have someone whom is doing my walks.
Guess we picked a good time for our honeymoon. Hope the weather clears up in the next week for everyone. Then I will back and have to deal with it all as well. Good luck in the rest of the week.
Bah, it'll probably warm up and then most of the snow will melt before you get back.
Hope you're enjoying the warm weather and the time away with the wife.
We're supposed to go into deep freeze here for a while, it might be a good idea to contact one of your neighbors and ask a favor. Unplowed drives are a calling card for break-ins :-/
Thorin did the trash guys take all that crap off your lawn? I hope so otherwise that's gonna be a bitch of a job :C
Quote from: Mr. Analog on November 09, 2012, 06:53:48 AM
We're supposed to go into deep freeze here for a while
starting when?
http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/city/pages/ab-50_metric_e.html
I guess the radio was wrong this morning, they were calling for -20 and lower next week...
Quote from: Mr. Analog on November 09, 2012, 09:23:30 AM
I guess the radio was wrong this morning, they were calling for -20 and lower next week...
Saturday and Sunday sure, but Monday+ it's like -8 low and -3 (or even above 0) for a high. #stillautumnaintwinteryet
All this snow could have fooled me :P
Yeah, the snow's gettin' kinda insane. Drive times were about double normal today, sucks for anyone who had to drive to a tournament in Sherwood Park today <blink blink>
Quote from: Thorin on November 07, 2012, 03:28:52 PM
I look forward to visiting this page tomorrow to see just how much snow fell: http://climate.weatheroffice.gc.ca/climateData/dailydata_e.html?timeframe=2&Prov=ALTA&StationID=50149&hlyRange=2012-04-10|2012-04-14&Year=2012&Month=11&Day=6
Hmm, well, that link says only 9.3cm of snow fell that day; that's just over 3.5 inches. Seemed like a lot more. And then 6.5cm fell two days later, so combined about 15.8cm, or just over 6 inches.
All's clear at the moment, downtown anyway. I think they got some snow in Sherwood Park this morning.
Yeah, I was looking back to November 7th and 9th. I'd said in that previous post that I wanted to come back and see how much snow was actually reported as falling on those days, since it seems like so much but 3.5 inches really isn't all that much.
Was that the day with the really heavy dump. heavy snow all day?
Cause we got like an entire FOOT of snow out here. or more. It was heavy enough that it immediately started compacting.. so It was hard to measure accurately.
All I know is that the roads are still f'd up in a lot of places
Yah, that was the snow-all-day day, followed by a better day, followed by another snow-most-of-the-day day. An' yeah, Edmonton's not anywhere close to cleaning up much of the snow on the streets yet.
Quote from: Thorin on November 07, 2012, 03:28:52 PM
I look forward to visiting this page tomorrow to see just how much snow fell: http://climate.weatheroffice.gc.ca/climateData/dailydata_e.html?timeframe=2&Prov=ALTA&StationID=50149&hlyRange=2012-04-10|2012-04-14&Year=2012&Month=11&Day=6
Nov 1 - Nov 28 (28 days) saw 11 days with measurable snowfall and 8 days with trace amounts of snow. And it's snowing again today.
So, I'm thinking we won't have a green Christmas this year heh
This reminds me of the late 80s actually, lots of good tobogganing back then :)
Beer-bogganing? (http://www.songstowearpantsto.com/songs/beerbogganing/)
Well given I was like 12 at the time, no.
We used to put ski-wax on our toboggan and hit the good hills at the golf course behind the house :)
Quote from: Mr. Analog on November 29, 2012, 11:29:49 AM
Well given I was like 12 at the time, no.
We used to put ski-wax on our toboggan and hit the good hills at the golf course behind the house :)
We used to ice up our gt racer and toboggan. :D
At an early age I learned real-world application of physics concepts that I would be taught much later ... thanks to an aluminum toboggan (https://www.google.com/search?q="aluminum+toboggan"&tbm=isch) and a tree.
pretty much this:
(http://cache.jalopnik.com/assets/images/12/2008/04/crashed_bonsai-thumb.jpg)
I got to drive in the snow yesterday, down to Red Deer. It was whiteout conditions on the way back, I couldn't see the taillights of the car in front of me half the time. There were five cars in the ditch, but luckily none had found a tree quite in that way. Maybe because our highways have almost no trees around them...
But man, we've had a lot of snow this November!
Oh man, yeah, I hit more than one tree with the ol' toboggan, it was all wood I'm surprised it didn't break actually.
Good times!!
Saturday driving was a mess, stay off 137th Ave if you can, we had to slide through one intersection on a quick changing red, and that's with snow tires and driving under 60.
another oldschool/80s type of thing to do when the white stuff lands and stays for dozens of weeks...
http://www.tsn.ca/blogs/darren_dreger/?id=410727
http://www.tsn.ca/window/gallery/?id=558
Good ol' backyard rink, we made one in Burlington back in '83, it was awesome
Backyard rinks are cool, and this year is a good year for one - it's nice and cold and the cold started early. Some of the community rinks are already ready to be skated on, I think.
I should probably get a pair of skates. The park has a rink, though I'm not sure if they have a caretaker for it this year. Neighbour of mine did it the past few years, but the political bullcrap going on there drove him out.
Summerside Lake has shimmy hockey rinks setup and skate paths shaved into the lake so you can do a scenic stroll on blades. Quite nice actually as they do have a decent blade that shaves the ice smooth.
Well you wanted Snow! NAIT has over 8" of snow already fallen.
YEAH SNOW!
:D
I was home this morning, on the way to the LRT I took a photo from the pedway at Southgate looking north.
[picture now attached to this post]
Visibility is almost certainly <100 feet... yes in the centre of the photo is the faint glow of the traffic lights just west of the TD Bank -- almost completely un-see-able.
And the wind isn't even very strong, it's just cuz of the white stuff (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=weird+al+the+white+stuff).
Quote from: Melbosa on December 05, 2012, 01:25:21 PM
Well you wanted Snow! NAIT has over 8" of snow already fallen.
Eight inches today? That would surprise me, as that would be twenty centimeters...
Quote from: Thorin on December 05, 2012, 01:52:31 PM
Quote from: Melbosa on December 05, 2012, 01:25:21 PM
Well you wanted Snow! NAIT has over 8" of snow already fallen.
Eight inches today? That would surprise me, as that would be twenty centimeters...
"10 to 15 cm of snow expected by this evening."
QuoteCity of Edmonton - St. Albert - Sherwood Park
12:53 PM MST Wednesday 05 December 2012
Snowfall warning for
City of Edmonton - St. Albert - Sherwood Park issued
10 to 15 cm of snow expected by this evening.
An upper disturbance moving slowly across Central Alberta is generating a heavy band of snow. The band extends from Whitecourt to Leduc and is moving slowly southeastward. 10 to 15 cm of snow is expected in areas affected by this band of snowfall. Conditions will improve this evening as the band weakens and moves further to the southeast.
I added my ridic photo.
PS: it's gonna be +1C on Monday. #wtfweather
Quote from: Thorin on December 05, 2012, 01:52:31 PM
Quote from: Melbosa on December 05, 2012, 01:25:21 PM
Well you wanted Snow! NAIT has over 8" of snow already fallen.
Eight inches today? That would surprise me, as that would be twenty centimeters...
Yep... although I don't know how they measure the 10-15 cm (if that is packed snow or what not). We took a measuring tape out there at lunch - 8" on the sidewalk where no one had walked and was clean this morning.
Right now the sun is out but it is still snowing like a damn - Eye of the storm like a hurricane?
They use an instrument called a snow gauge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_gauge
Quote from: Darren Dirt on December 05, 2012, 01:29:29 PM
(http://forums.righteouswrath.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=8263.0;attach=1802;image)
Nice picture. Now imagine less visibility than that, on the highway from Red Deer to Leduc, as I was trying to get back in time for the next game in St Albert, and everyone doing 60-70kmh... I usually use cruise on the highway but for that trip I did not use cruise even once, and there were times on the highway that I put it in 4HI (meaning it's in four-wheel drive) instead of Auto4WD (meaning it's in two-wheel drive and will kick into four-wheel drive when spin is detected).
Apparently it snowed a bit today. I haven't looked outside since 8am.
But if there's a lot* of it, here's a fun activity for the prankster-troll in you!
http://actualfunnypictures.com/i-know-what-im-doing-the-next-time-it-snows/
* idk, is 10-20 cm a lot?
http://weather.gc.ca/warnings/report_e.html?ab33#223658468250417275201511220501
20 cm is just over 7" (I don't know if that helps)
We got some up here but not as much as the Park (which according to my dad) is coming down like crazy
For one days worth of precipitation I would call that significant... happy commuting tomorrow!
10.16cm = 4", 20.32cm=8", 30.48cm=12". So, 4" to 8" of snow. That's a fair bit for twelve hours.
...
I was putting the snow tires on the car between 12pm and 1pm today. The snow started out here at 12:50pm, so just as I was tightening the last of the lugnuts and lowering the car back down. Perfect timing!
I made sure to clear stuff off my deck to make it easier to shovel later..
I decided to work from home tomorrow in anticipation of bad commuters in the am LOL
Good plan heh
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Quote from: Darren Dirt on November 23, 2015, 04:50:40 PM
Apparently it snowed a bit today. I haven't looked outside since 8am.
But if there's a lot* of it, here's a fun activity for the prankster-troll in you!
http://actualfunnypictures.com/i-know-what-im-doing-the-next-time-it-snows/
* idk, is 10-20 cm a lot?
http://weather.gc.ca/warnings/report_e.html?ab33#223658468250417275201511220501
Quote from: Mr. Analog on November 23, 2015, 05:02:23 PM
20 cm is just over 7" (I don't know if that helps)
Thanks for the serious maths. I was actually being sarcastic, instead of being angry at Old Man W showing up all of a sudden like that.
Was big fluffy wet stuff too, so brushing off my car was a workout, and then driving was a wet mess -- on the road as well as on my windshield.
Today looks like around 6-9 inches of snow has fallen most everywhere, so I guess the 20-25cm prediction was about right. The wind was a bitch though -- as it is today.
Lazy, you want to brag about the current weather conditions where you are? ;)
Quote from: Darren Dirt on November 24, 2015, 03:30:05 PM
Lazy, you want to brag about the current weather conditions where you are? ;)
Well the current conditions should be in my signature however, the environment Canada forecast can be found here https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/bc-74_metric_e.html
To be fair it's going to be a sloppy mess here by Friday, +7?C or something