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Posted by Roger Shoaf on March 3, 2008, 1:46 am
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Pray tell, why are you posting a winter weather forecast dated from Nov. 30
on March 2nd?
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Roger Shoaf
About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then
they come up with this striped stuff.
> Blast from the past?
> Last Updated: Friday, November 30, 2007 | 9:55 PM ET
> CBC News
> Not since the grunge era and Brian Mulroney's days as prime minister has
Canada
> experienced a winter quite as bitter as the one expected to creep in this
December,
> Environment Canada forecasted on Friday.
>
>
> Alex Pawsey shields herself from the elements with an umbrella while
crossing St.
> George's Square in Guelph, Ont. on Thursday, March 1, 2007.
> (Canadian Press/ Guelph Mercury/ Darren Calabrese)
> In its first winter outlook of the year, the agency predicts that until
February,
> climates across most of the country will be the coldest in 15 years, with
the
> exception of a small pocket in southern Ontario.
>
> Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips said the trend in
recent years
> of uncharacteristically warm, short winters will be wiped out by a chilly
reminder of
> what a real Canadian winter feels like.
>
> Although it won't necessarily be "the winter from hell or face-numbing
wind chills
> every time," Phillips said temperature-wise, "we could have conditions
that would be
> perhaps three-quarters or a degree colder than normal."
>
> Colder air this year is expected to drive down temperatures.
>
> "We think that with La Nina — which encourages more Canadian air, more
Siberian air,
> whatever you want to call it, Alaskan air — it tends to be more of that
flow," he
> said, referring to the phenomenon of lower-than-normal temperatures in the
Pacific Ocean.
>
> The cooler climate will likely also blanket some cities with snow after
years without
> a white Christmas, he said.
>
> Last year, a number of traditionally cold and snow-covered cities such
as Quebec
> City, Ottawa and Timmins, Ont., had their first green Christmas in
decades.
>
> There are several up-sides to the mercury dipping, Phillips said. Winter
sports
> enthusiasts might embrace the cooler winter, as would businesses that rely
on the snow.
>
> "I always think it's good for the economy when weather is behaving like it
should,
> when winters are cold and summers are hot," he said, adding more people
will likely
> book holidays to escape the harsh weather.
>
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> Last Updated: Friday, November 30, 2007 | 9:55 PM ET
> CBC News
> Not since the grunge era and Brian Mulroney's days as prime minister has