Snowstorms

Whether it's a Nino or Nina, they haven't been properly coupling with the atmosphere and winter after winter we all get pure garbage. Our average low right now is 12F and we haven't been below freezing in 9 days now. We might need either a strong Nino (which may or may not happen for a few more years), or a couple neutral years to "reset" things. I would think? Seeing that graph Don posted is intriguing to say the least with both NYC and Toronto warming nearly 6F in the last 120+ years.

I wonder if it was bad as the 2013 ice storm in Toronto? We got 2 inches of ice too and it practically solidified the 5" of snow we had on the ground. https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/toronto-ice-storm-2013-photos-from-the-gtas-winter-nightmare

Can't just winter for a month and still call it winter. I thought winter was a 3-4 month package deal? We been getting scammed for a while now.

There's been a couple good ones in the last 25 years which is literally every winter in your following post, except 09-10, but we had our version of that 2 years prior (07-08). Also, 04-05 was pretty good too. I think the bigger story is the rising winter temps. We've warmed over 3F in the last 40 years lol. And in recent years 60% of the snow we've gotten was with marginal temps. A degree higher and it would've been rain. So unless this is some cycle, at the rate we're all going, it may only get worse. So yeah it's pretty bad.

Lake effect is extremely localized. So it's really only a guarantee for maybe 5-10% of people living near the Great Lakes. The other 90-95% of us just get mood flakes and that one 5 minute burst of heavy mood flakes. Take it from me, I live near Lake Ontario and we only get 1-2 decent chances, at best, per winter lol. And that too, no more than 3-4". Plus there's been no lake effect snow now for 10 days cause it's too warm. It's been a very shit winter.

2-4" possible across the GTA, away from the Lake, this evening into tomorrow. Lake Ontario temperatures are still relatively warm for this time of the year. This combined with cold upper air temps, will allow the lake effect band to sustain itself through tomorrow morning. If surface temperatures were colder, this would've been a nice 4-8" event. But we'll take it.

October finished a degree above average with no sub-freezing lows recorded at YYZ lol.

Been in the 40s all day. Still waiting for our first freeze. Too much cloud cover and uhi preventing it.

I haven't turned my heat on yet but may eventually haha. This ugly upper level low has kept all of us in the low to mid teens since the weekend. Some of the hi-res models had lows in the low single digits tonight but with the thick cloud cover in place right now, that seems unlikely. Early next week looks nice though.

I haven't been to that side of NYS yet. I just googled Adirondack and I'm blown away. Wow!! I thought mountains like this were only on the west coast. I'm definitely going to check this out in the next couple of weeks. Not that far from Montreal either. Sounds good, I will join your discord group. Thanks again for the recommendations.

I went to Allegany State Park for the first time back in May. It was a beautiful park, so I went again in June and August haha. I was looking to drive down into NY State again to see some Fall colours. Any recommendations on good parks? Preferably with some good mountains.

Currently 80F but a nice line of thunderstorms about to roll in soon. Forecast low of 37F tom night. Impressive cold front.

1.9" since June 1 and only 0.3" halfway through July lol. Looking like California out here. Can't complain, been nice to get out of the house and not worry about rain.

I agree, I'm surprised myself. Maybe it's the UHI? Not even Windsor has hit 35C this year. Toronto has hit it twice.

Hit 95 both yesterday and Tuesday in Toronto. Humidity had us feeling close to 110 Broke the daily record both days. Need some rain though, it's been really dry since Spring.

Sitting at 75F currently at YYZ. Warmest temp we've had since Oct 2, 2021.

How is midwestern Ontario in the mid 20's but Toronto can't even crack 20C? For my American friends, 20C is 68F. We haven't even hit that yet.

Yeah same here but still behind schedule. Cherry blossom trees are near peak. Thurs/Fri looking really warm for your area. Env. Canada forecasting 84F both days in Windsor.

Good chance we hit our first 70 of the year today.

Saw this yesterday and chuckled. Perfect response.

May 1 and it's 47F outside. Feels like late March. With the exception of tomorrow the entire week is expected to be in the 50's. . What is this crap?

Tired of this cold now lol. The warmest we've gotten all year is 66F. Ridiculous. I was down in D.C and Arlington, VA for a couple days earlier this week and it was so great to finally experience 70s and 80s again.

April is coming to an end and YYZ has yet to hit 70F lol

YYZ is now at 67.7" for the season. Also the 8th snowiest on record.

11F this morning at YYZ breaking the old record from 1982. Season snowfall at 64.0".