Snow!

[Thorin]

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!

[Mr. Analog]

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.

[Darren Dirt]

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

[Mr. Analog]

Good ol' backyard rink, we made one in Burlington back in '83, it was awesome

[Thorin]

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.

[Tom]

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.

[Melbosa]

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.

[Melbosa]

Well you wanted Snow!  NAIT has over 8" of snow already fallen.

[Mr. Analog]

YEAH SNOW!

[Darren Dirt]

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.

[Thorin]

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...

[Mr. Analog]

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."

City 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.

[Darren Dirt]

I added my ridic photo.

PS: it's gonna be +1C on Monday. #wtfweather

[Melbosa]

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?

[Mr. Analog]

They use an instrument called a snow gauge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_gauge