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  2. C’mon; all Americans know that Canada has no weather – it’s all snow, all the time. Why waste time updating it?

  3. I always thought it was bizarre Americans never showed Canadian weather, even though our cable channels where from them. Including a lot of funding for PBS.

  4. We are used to seeing this. When we lived in the US we would see large involved weather systems that miraculously evaporated the moment they touched the border. Radar maps include all of the US and Canada, so someone from the weather department must have to manually erase anything outside of the familiar American geography. My husband and I postulated that showing a whole system might actually confuse some Americans as to where they were on the map. Cloud cover distorts familiar landmarks i.e. if the Great Lakes were covered where is Ohio? Illinois? Pennsylvania?

  5. The Yukon rarely has weather in Canada. If we do have weather, the temps are 10 -20 C higher in winter and 10-20 C lower in summer. Got to keep the Glob-all warm up hoax alive! One more gripe: forcaster always stands in front of the west.

  6. I heard from Phil Jones that Mexican and Canadian weather is being withheld due to confidentiality agreements with those countries.

  7. Reminds me of the call received by the tourist office asking if there were roads in Canada, as they all stopped at the border on the caller’s map.

  8. Come on people! You’re obviously not paying attention.
    We don’t have weather up here.
    We only have global warming! Strike that, we only have climate change!

  10. ¿No cualquiera que Cuba no tiene ni tiempo de aviso? Norteamericanos estás dichos racistas!
    Fidel Castro
    ¿Keepin’ real estilo marxista.
    Paz fuera puta!

  12. DeNihilist, that’s Sault Ste. Marie Michigan. And caygeon, I think you’ve hit on something: Many Americans couldn’t find their a** with both hands, let alone find the Good Old USA on a map if it weren’t for that curiously straight border along the northern edge.

  16. Actually it has been my experience that US TV stations from Minnesotta to Montana include Canada on their maps….I can’t comment on Vermont…..I recall Erie Pa giving temps in Southern Ontario……
    There must be some improvement…I have not heard of a sighting of a toboggan on the roof of a US plated car in July/August for about 40 years…..
    Maybe I just wasn’t paying attention….
    A while back I met a resident of College Station PA, who had visited Canada (SW Ontariario) and was amazed at how flat the country was….and how straight the roads were….

  17. I live ten miles from the border, on an island. I have to cross two bridges to get to the mainland US, and only one to get to Canada. Alburg, Vt is actually another little bit, like the Northwest Angle, that is connected to land only to Canada. Of course a couple regular sized bridges get you back to the US of A, not a long ferry ride.
    So yeah, we get Canadian weather.

  18. I think the take-home from this post is, American media is fixated on America. And ridiculously so.
    Our citizens are immersed in trivial media products that exhibit a disturbing degree of insularity, navel-gazing and a disregard for a genuinely diverse, international perspective.
    And it doesn’t just show up in our weather reports. Our entire legacy media, from our sclerotic university programs to our cartelized “news” broadcasters, deal in quotidien tirades of America-centric research on topics ranging from gun-crime and obesity to endemic racism and national defense, as if their doppler radars only cover the contiguous 48s’ airspace.
    How else can a Michigan feminist professor be ignorant of Sharia’s precepts while toiling away deep in the bowells of what was advertised to her as an educational enterprise? Why else might a 35 year old man stay in Detroit despite ample signals throughout his twenties that that municipality faces an iminent collapse? Why else would a scientific fraud regarding weather find so many receptive minds among America’s advanced secular priests in media, government and academe?
    Americans – and foreigners who glean their news about America from American press and universities – have enormous blindspots. These conceal such pathologies as wefare-state-caused inner-city nihilism, declines in American youths’ educational achievement, a general curdling of America’s anglo-saxon (ie. “Whiteness”)culture, and antagonistic moves by governments in charge of illiberal regimes abroad.
    Blind spots on a weather-map might cause temporary consternation, but blind spots in our technocrats’ rolls will generate permament disability. You Canadians’ might be our seeing-eye dogs: with your current clarity of vision, you guys up North can see our across the busy intersection we’ve stumbled into.
    Here’s hopin.’
    -S

  19. And….in the grander scheme of things….who gives a flying *%^&$#%&? If I need to know what the weather is like in Alberta or Saskatchewan I look it up or call my cousin. Nufff said!

  20. This is why I never admit to being born in Canada….old tired same old bullshit.
    Posted by: DeNihilist at January 25, 2012 12:39 AM
    “They stole the Sault? Don’t they remember what we did to the whitehouse???”
    Canadians didn’t do shit to the Whitehouse, it was British troops who burnt it down to the ground for retribution because we “effed” up YORK. Canadians can be so predictable!

  21. Alaska always gets left out of the picture.
    I know in Missouri they call all bad storms from the West. Alberta Clippers.

  23. Actually, the U.S. weather map implies that above the 49th parallel “There be dragons here”.
    This is to discourage U.S. citizens from cross border shopping.
    It also is to discourage Americans visiting and seeing lower levels of unemployment in Canada than exist in Obamaland, friendly blue states.

  24. Many Americans couldn’t find their a** with both hands…
    Posted by: canuck66 at January 24, 2012 10:38 PM
    And I see nothing that indicates Canadians are more worldly.

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