This just in, from the man who predicted a “a summer for wheat farmers, swimming in the lake and having a beer on the backyard patio”.
“It could still be warmer than normal… but it won’t be a non-winter like last year,” which saw the warmest and driest conditions on record, Phillips told CTV.ca earlier this week.
A NON winter? I don’t recall last year’s non-winter. But hold on. Forget those late, wet, frozen crops – it looks like we had that hot dry summer after all!
The summer’s hot and sunny weather has led many to worry that winter would be particularly harsh.
I wonder… is Dave Phillips using these thermometers?
With his prediction of a long cold winter, Philips may be finally getting it right. He sure was out to lunch with his hot summer predictions, at least here in the steppes. But hey, like Warren Buffet says, it only matters if I am right 51% of the time.
Phillips is the phoneiest mouthpiece for the Libocracy ever. Go back to his constant rantings of impending doom from glowball warming predictions. Harper needs a majority so he can clean house of these libsucks, this high voiced clown is a perfect case. Lieberals the very scum that believe in evolution lock stock and barrel, never seem to evolve themselves.
Yepper, ya gotta love AES computer modelling based on flawed, cherry-picked data.
So if I were a wheat farmer I could have enjoyed a swim in the lake and beer on the patio instead of having my furnace run every month this “summer”? Note to self – look into a career change.
Phillips also told Global National last week that the Farmers’ Almanac uses “silly things” like sun spots to forecast the weather. Everyone knows that serious weather prediction uses hockey sticks.
Here in Vancouver it’s been raining…WTF?
If his paycheck & pension were dependent on his forecasts, he’d be either singing a different tune or he’d be indigent, living in cardboard box placed over a street steam vent.
“Spare change for my Irritable Climate Syndrome buddy?”
“I got it bad, please help”
Sorry, but I’m just recycling my comments from last year and the year before that: “Here we have had the coldest summer on record, breaking the record that was set…last year!”
Central Alberta set record cold temperatures last week and down here in the South, crops are lying ruined in the fields. You know, from the hot, dry, desert like conditions that global warming was bringing!
Apparently Canada consists solely of southern Ontario.
For the fourth year in a row we have had crop damaging frosts in the fall, gotta love the global warming. With the majority of the world’s food produced in the northern hemisphere, cooling like we’re having is a concern. Everyone, please burn some styrofoam. Phillips job likely depends on towing the company line.
Phillips is part of the Ruling Class. That is why he acts in such weird ways.
Kings and Queens, the Clergy and the press controlled the masses with the ‘instill fear and offer salvation’ tricks.
Before the science was common knowledge, the eclipse of the sun was a tool of the Ruling Class. They would tell the commoners to obey (and pay taxes) or the sun will go dark tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock.
Phillips and gang also try to keep Canadians in the dark by skewing the data and rewriting forecasts. They are simply playing the ‘repent! and pay (green)taxes’ game or the world will end with global warming.
The climate alarmism game may have worked for many decades to come because most of the media is complicit in this latest Ruling Class scam. But the Internet and blogs and on line networking come along and spoiled their party.
That is why the Intellectuals and the Elites and the media and the establishments of all political parties went ‘jump the shark ballistic’ over Sarah Palin.
I recall hearing on Gormly when the topic was weather events someone said we use data from Denver for our forecasts. Maybe we should hire the guys in Montana?
The prairies had a mild winter (although certainly not a non-winter) and Ontario had a harsh winter.
And the prairies had a wet cold summer, while Ontario had a hot (and dry?) summer.
So if you pick one from column A and one from column B, you get a mild winter and hot summer. ‘Mazing what you can do when you select the right data points.
Why don’t they just call these people Weather Guessers as that is all they really are.
You guys simply don’t understand the truthiness of rhetorical weather. Simpletons.
Now,now peoples.Besides politicians,name two other jobs where you can lie and be wrong over 75% of the time,and still keep your “job”.
Hint….journos and WX men/women.
(Note to self…..job change.)
If I want to know the weather,I look out the f*(*ng window,or step outside.
It was hot and dry in Ontario this summer, particularly Toronto area.
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Is there anywhere else that matters?
Perhaps Phillips should pay attention to the commenters of this article. Even with all the technology available Environment Canada still can get more accurate information from those who witness actual weather (no tornado warning issued for 1987 Edmonton tornado until witnesses called them to tell them there was a tornado on the ground). Even after a tornado hit near Raymore, Sk a few years ago Environment Canada officials weren’t convinced there was a tornado despite numerous witness accounts and the obvious damage to a farmyard. But what do average citizens know.http://www.leaderpost.com/news/Environment+Canada+tornado+warning+system+horrible+says+expert/3273168/story.html
“It was hot and dry in Ontario this summer, particularly Toronto area.”
Not nearly hot enough,Phantom.No spontaneous combustion at 451 degrees F,thus saving the rest of us from the center of the universe.
That old saying from the 80’s still stands….let the Eastern bastards freeze in the dark.
Actually Justthinkin it was filthy, stinking HOT down here from end of July to about Labor Day. Usually we get maybe two weeks of 85-90F+, this year nearly five weeks. Humid, hot and horrible. Lake Phantom completely dried up and I’ve been mowing grass where there was water last year.
Then on about Sept. 6th it went from 90F to 70F overnight, like somebody threw a switch from Summer to Fall. I get the feeling its going to be one hell of a winter, so I’m putting new brakes in the truck.
Irritable Climate Syndrome indeed. Could use some nice global warming about now.
Micro-climates….
Here in my part of balmy Southern Ontario we had no mid-summer drought respite from lawn-mowing….same as last year.
Winter….remember those fuzzy little cattypillars….the wider the dark strip the more severe the winter? Only have seem 2….with no stripe whatsoever.
Less walnuts on the black walnuts….likely an indicator of polination conditions….but….
The last “non winter” I recall was 1987-88. In SW sask, we had about 2 ins. of snow all winter, it melted and turned to +15C for most of the winter.
I had a Environment Canada weather station at my farm for one year, then they switched to automatic stations. The Stevenson Screen was a standardized method of catching the proper temp.
A friend of mine had a manual station, they built an automated unit near her farm. She recently informed me that the wind speed indicator had been broken for about six weeks. After the new station was built, she kept on recording her own wind speed, temp, rainfall etc. just for her own use.
One day she got a phone call from an Enviro-Canada bureaucat asking why there hadn’t been any wind in that area for the last month and a half. The anemometer at the auto-station had fallen to the ground. I guess that the computer didn’t pick that up. So how accurate are wind speed records for an area where the records didn’t show for over three months before they repaired the unit?
I met Dave Phillips, he’s an OK guy. But he is surrounded by bureaucrats from the Chrétien-Martin era that all need to be ousted. Now that’s my opinion.
That Phillips fellow is a raving lunatic. There aren’t very many lakes in Sask., nor many in Alberta. The farmers I have seen tended to *work* during the summer.
Now wheat farmers may winter in Florida – my mother,
who came from a small-farm background in the Ottawa Valley
used to make snide remarks about the differnece between real farmers, who worked 24 months a year
[or would have if they could] and “what miners’ on the Prairies, who worked 9 months a year;
but no one ever doubted the work loads during the summers.
Phillips is too busy with watching global warming computer models to be bothered looking out the window.
At least someone has muzzled him as he rarely issues the word global warming … otherwise his useless and mostly wrong prognostications are pure drivel … but that is what the MSM like.
I’m far more interested in any comments that SDA regular commenter Peter O’Donell has to make about the weather than anything “watermelon” Dave from Environment Canada has to say.
Hot and dry summer my patooty…
I feel for you folks in Western Canada and the financial hit you have taken from the weather this spring and summer on your crops.
Consecutive heat waves shattered temperature records across the nation,
More evidence that Ontario thinks of itself as the “nation” while the rest of Canada, is just excess baggage.
I remember this pinhead three summers ago, when the spring was foul here on the West Coast,and heard him again this year saying the west coast had had a record breaking hot and dry June.I thought , this is our weather expert?.We had a horrifying June .. I planted my veggies multiple times, corn is just being picked, weeks late..Where do we find these people. How do they maintain their positions?
Heavy snow falling right now. Looks like an early winter to go with Alberta’s non-summer. There could be a run on snow suits and ski-doo’s tomorrow. It’s a good thing we have all that coal and dirty oil to keep the Glaciers back.
Gosh David Phlllips predicted a warm fall for eastern Canada. It promptly got cool and wet. So my gosh golly just forget all that. Buy his historical weather calendar. It’s never wrong.
If you want to know what the weather is stick your head out the window. Predictions? Who cares…
Maybe if the GTA separates the rest of Ontario can get friendly with Canada again? Please?
When it comes to screwdrivers and Milk of Magnesia, I’ll take Phillips seriously. Weather, not so much.
Dave Phillips is clearly just doing his job, and if he didn’t, somebody else would. We need to get rid of that job.