Showing posts with label weather. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weather. Show all posts

Monday, January 26, 2015

Will Spring EVER come?

 

Squirrel at my orange peel feeder. March 26, 2014

March 28, 2014

March 30, 2014


April 5, 2014

Spring, where are you?

March 22, 2014

 

 
 Last Saturday we shoveled the cottage roof. We were actually warm up there. Sunday it was bitterly cold again. Then today, this:
Seriously? This is what we wake up to on the 2nd day of spring?
 
HHmmmmmm....
 

 

March 12, 2014 snow storm

Yet another storm!


Time lapse of the storm, which wasn't as bad as predicted, but still more snow that any of us want!!!
 
Link to Darcy's Journal for today, including video: http://tiggeric.blogspot.ca/2014/03/march-12-2014.html

March break 2014

March 10, 2014

 

This is what the cottage looks like right now. We have not been to shovel the roof yet. *sigh* seems like it's been forever since we were last there and like the snow will never go away.
 
I spent the Friday that March break started at a volunteer meeting that was supposed to last 3 hours, but lasted over 5. Since  figured it would be done around 1:00, I did not bring a lunch for Darcy and I, just a few snacks. I let her have all of them. On the way home I got lost twice while very nearly running out of gas. We finally got home and Kevin greeted me with the news that his father had been hospitalized. Nice start to the week off.
 
Sunday I went to a swap meet. I took more stuff than I brought back, but my points are kept for next time.  After that I went to mom's to watch the Oscars. I loved the show this year! Ellen is terrific...ordering pizza for the stars and sending the delivery guy a HUGE tip - I LOVE IT. I went home around 12:30 am, Darcy stayed for the 2nd night of her sleepover.
 
On Saturday, after Darcy's dance class, we went to Bruce's funeral.  I thought about my dad and Kevin's dad and Bruce all mixed together, all day. It was a draining day. Once again everyone but me was in bed by 8:30, just when I come alive...I watched We Bought a Zoo on TV and loved it!
 
Link to Darcy's Journal for March Break:http://tiggeric.blogspot.ca/2014/03/march-break-2014.html

Feb 2, 2014: Could I get a few inches LESS?


 
Really? More snow? I know it's winter in Canada, and it's supposed to be cold and snowy...but I've had ENOUGH!

freezing rain

Jan 5, 2014
The bathroom window is all iced up, as are the front windows.

vehicles are iced, too.

record low temperatures


http://www.meteomedia.com/nouvelles/articles/records-de-froid-et-aeroports-paralyses/19099/

MétéoMédia

Mardi 7 janvier 2014 à 20 h 45 -
 Le vortex polaire qui plane sur les États-Unis et sur le Canada a généré une vague de froid presque inégalée en 20 ans. En effet, pas moins de 50 villes ont battu des records de froid dans la moitié est des États-Unis, mardi. Du côté de l’Ontario, les températures ont également donné lieu à des records.

Cette vague de froid historique a paralysé les aéroports de New York, Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, Detroit, Las Vegas, Washington et Toronto. Plus de 2000 vols ont été annulés et plus de 6000 retardés mardi, s’ajoutant à la dizaine de milliers d’autres depuis jeudi. Le froid faisait geler les équipements, clouant les avions au sol.

La ville de New York a enregistré mardi ses températures les plus basses pour un 7 janvier depuis plus de 100 ans. Il a fait -15,5 °C à Central park, battant le précédent record de -14,4 °C en 1896.
Philadelphie et Baltimore ont aussi enregistré des records avec -15,5 °C et -16,1 °C.
À Atlanta, il a fait plus froid qu'à Anchorage, en Alaska. Les températures ont atteint -14,4°C, relayant aux oubliettes un record de 1970.

Il faisait -22 ˚C avec un refroidissement éolien de -33 mardi matin à Chicago alors qu’on annonçait un maximum de -7,7 °C à Nashville, au Tennessee avec une température ressentie de -12. Ce n’était guère mieux au Minnesota où le mercure indiquait -28 ˚C avec un refroidissement éolien de -37.
Les écoles et certaines entreprises sont demeurent fermées depuis le début de cette vague de froid qui s’estompera d’ici jeudi.

Froids records en Ontario

La masse d’air arctique qui recouvre les États-Unis affecte également l’Ontario. À l’aéroport de Windsor, on a enregistré -25,2 ˚C alors que le précédent record était de -20,6 ˚C en 1942.
À Sarnia, un record de 1968 avec -20 ˚C a été pulvérisé alors que le mercure indiquait -25,2 ˚C, mardi.

À London, il a fait -26,1. Le précédent record était de -21,7 ˚C en 1942.
Finalement, à Hamilton, le mercure indiquait -24 ˚C. La température la plus froide avait été enregistrée en 1968 avec -20 ˚C.

Jan 2, 2013: HOLY COLD!

Jan 2, 2013: HOLY COLD!


 
Lightening



Overcast
Overcast
-25°C
Feels like -34

E 12km/h

 
07:36
Sunrise
 
16:23
Sunset



    Wicked storm


    July 10, 2013


     
    Finally finished the green paint I started last summer for mom.

    6 years since Kevin and I re-met.
    Wicked storm at the lake. Power out due to tree down right across the road, laying on the lines, too. 



    My view as I approached my driveway.

     View from the driveway.

    Mama raccoon and 1 baby. Flying Squirrel. Fire flies.








    Tree lake side lost 1 fork of tree top.


       Cracked tree.




     
     
     
    Darcy's journal for today:
     
    July 12
    Tree cutter came to cut down the cracked tree. He got lost on his way and ironically asked my mom for directions at the church hall. He eventually found me, was out of gas and couldn't find his iPhone - poor guy! I gave him some boat gas and he found his phone after he cut down the tree. He left a tall stump at my request, as I wanted to save it for the woodpeckers.

    There was a mini family reunion this afternoon, but I missed it due to tree cutter arriving late.

    Darcy's journal for today: http://tiggeric.blogspot.ca/2013/08/friday-july-12-2013.html

    Isn't this a little warm for May 6th?

    Hot Stuff!
     Isn't this a little warm for May 6th?

    Spring sightings

    April 12, 2013

     

    On April 2nd I saw 6 robins in the yard. It snowed 3 days later. 

    This week I saw a Great Blue Heron, 2 or 3 flocks of geese, 2 hooded mergansers and a chipmunk. It's going to snow ~15 cm today!!!

    C'mon Spring, we`re all confused, we need you!

    The Power of Mother Nature

    March 27, 2013

     

    A collapsed beaver dam destroyed part of Chemin de la Riviere (AKA Colford's Rd).

    Here is a video:

    You Tube video from The Review

    Feb 28, 2012: SNOW & WIND



    Arctic Air

    January 23, 2013

     

     -30 °C

    A few clouds