Posted by Mitch on January 5, 2002, at 14:31:24
In reply to Canadian weather » Mitch, posted by IsoM on January 5, 2002, at 14:06:34
> Seeing I live in Canada's small "banana belt" now, the idea of a blizzard is hilarious. I think the last winter we had any real snow & had it last more than a day or two was 1995. We got talking at work about that & we think that's the year.
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> But I did spend some years on the Canadian prairies - hoo boy! That's a winter! Five months of winter & the other seven months divided among spring (the mud season), summer (very hot & lots of mosquitoes, black flies, & grasshoppers), & fall (the bare trees, brown grass, & never-know what's-next weather).
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> Highs could sometime reach 40C (104F) in summer & lows -40C (-40F too) in winter. Honestly! I found it so weird. One spring in mid-May with the flowering lilacs beautifully scenting the air, a hot, windy weekend came & all the lilac flowers were burnt brown.
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> Another time after a nice spring, we had a blizzard on the long weekend in May & still had snowdrifts melting in mid-June. Another year, we had killer frosts in mid-June too & another that year in mid-August, two months apart. I did't get that much from my garden that time. Guess why I moved back to the West Coast?
Wow, I am from Kansas and it was a lot like that living there. Also, wind that just never..stops. I remember reading a book when I was in elementary school-"The Endless Steppe"-about the Ukrainian or central Asian steppes/grasslands. I was joking with someone about the heat out there in Kansas this summer when I visited family-"I might as well have been in Kazakhstan!". I haven't been on the Pacific side of the continent yet. I may have to fly to Long Beach in March. Eeek, not looking forward to being in a plane.
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