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  1. The U.S. media has actually decided to call this storm “Eliot”.

    Where else would you name something that is normally called ” a bit of bad weather”.

    It’s -37 here this morning, and that is a bit of bad weather. Something about some cannonballs freezing on a rack on a ship comes to mind.

    2. I was just thinking about the practice of naming significant storms. It really isn’t useful, and it would be better to name them by year, month, location, and if a nickname is thought to be helpful besides that, ok. So something like 2022-12USMW (Eliot). It would be easier to keep track of.

    3. They name them now so they can keep pretending that 3″ of snow in the upper Midwest, in December, followed by a cold snap, is somehow EXTREME WEATHER.

      How much you wanna bet it warms up above freezing in a week or two, like it always does, and the media starts screaming about the extreme heat wave?

      1. Exactly. Follows closely on the heels of them naming every GD cloud in the sky in summertime, then counting them as hurricanes.

  3. Morning Kate. We live at about the same latitude as your Miami (Toronto). Thanks for sharing Canada. You’re the reason we can’t put a saddle on our bugs (unlike Miami) and our snakes look like shoe laces vs garden hoses. We do worry about Texas at times like this. The saying about this sort of weather is: “there’s nothing between Texas and Canada but some barbed wire” (for the cows) not sure that saying about fences would go over in Woke Austin today. not that there are that many actual Texans in Texas to remember it any way. The greenness of their grid killed people last time so we are more worried about them although our grid could go green too. Anyhow Merry Christmas SDA, stay warm and thanks for being there.

  4. Reminds me of the clip from Boston news a few years back where a reporter was interviewing residents about a current snow storm. The reporter put on camera a guy from Canada who of course said he was pretty used to driving in snow, had his snow tires, blah blah. The reporter (maybe the anchor) did struggle to pronounce the guy’s name correctly.

    It was Jarome Iginla. Neither the reporter nor anchor recognized him at all.

  5. It’s not normally this cold here in NW Montana. I used to live in Muskoka in Ontario, so this reminds me of the old days. Squeaking snow.

  6. Just came in from the barn. Getting nasty out there with that global warming. Snow, cold and wicked wind.

    1. Ont john
      You haven’t trained the animals to self keep yet?
      If they could look after their own needs, you could sleep in:-)))

  7. “I didn’t even realize there was a 3:30 in the morning too …”

    Hahahahaha ha ha ha … son … you’re being wasted as a sports reporter … you’ve got a future in stand up. Impeccable droll delivery and timing. Too funny. Way to make winter weather entertaining. Fire the weather reporters who didn’t come in.

  9. Here in Northern ON we are at 0 Celsius. That’s 32F for ‘Mericans.
    My southern family near Windsor ON, southern most tip of Canada, are suffering at -18 C, blizzard conditions.

    1. -18 is suffering? Overnite lows have been into the mid -30’s here for the last few days in southern Alberta. High today is s’pose ta be -17. Positively balmy…

        1. LOL, thx for the reminder. Thinking of doing a vertical tasting over the holidays. Probably a Deschutes The Abyss barrel-aged Imperial Stout, 2014-2019 or their Black Butte barrel-aged Imperial Porter, same date range.

          Had a chance to try a kegged vertical of the Black Butte a couple years back in Whitefish, MT. They had like a 2011-2016 or similar. $20USD for 5-4oz samples. Heavenly. Had a pint of my favorite afterwards. Drunkenly.

        1. Way off Rusty … I calculate 969 km
          Calgary 51.05 lat N
          Windsor 42.32 lat N
          each latitude degree = 111 km
          8.73 degrees X 111 – 969
          This isn’t exact since at the equator each degree is 110.57 km and at the Tropic of Cancer 110.95 etc etc but good enough for government work.

      3. Sorry but I think TurdDough would be a more acceptable gift. We could ship him to San Francisco.

        This always below freezing weather in Boise is not fun. I grew up in Santa Monica three blocks from thr beach.

  10. Moved from Ontario to Saskatchemewanistania this year. -31C with -37C windchill at the moment. It’s really not all that bad if you can stay out of the wind.

    Have noticed something really interesting. Living in southwestern Ontario all my life, I’d battle what I am guessing is Seasonal Affective Disorder every year. That part of Ontario gets gloomy in winter. It may not be cold and there may not be much precipitation, but it’s overcast for weeks at a time. The winter of 2017 was particularly bad and I’m convinced that the gloominess of that winter contributed to the end of my marriage in early 2018. But in Saskatchewan, The Land That Time And Half-Decent Chinese And Indian Takeout Forgot, it’s sunny almost all the time. And the daylight makes a tremendous difference – I don’t feel the bone-crushing doldrums that I felt in Ontario. There are other things here to crush your soul, but at least there’s sunshine.

    I’ll take the cold with sunshine over more moderate temperatures with gloom anytime

      1. Not checked, but was and still am chugging vitamin D. So much so that some of the tablets don’t even stop to dissolve – they come out as solid tablets when I pee.

        I get your point about vitamin D and its role in mood and depression. But I think there is something about sunlight itself beyond vitamin D production that affects mood. Sunshine is just good for the soul.

        2. There are lights you can get for SAD. I have oneand use it by the computer desk. The light is supposed to make a difference.

        3. No doubt about it. A lot of prairie folk head to Vancouver Island or the Okanagon when they retire. And quite a few of them move back after a few years. Six months of heat and sunshine, followed by six months of overcast and rain. Depression often follows.

          I know people who live near Courtney who have to go south to Mexico every winter to get away. They begin to suffer from depression if they don’t. You can’t beat lots of sunshine. Unless you have lots of moonshine.

  11. Is it cold enough for Climate Change arseholes to stop bitching about Global warming yet?

    I remember when -30’s were just winter.

    3. You will be happy to know that at one webcomic comment section I encountered a couple of global warming enthusiasts who assured me and everyone else that colder weather is evidence of global warming. 😀

  12. The problem is that there is no effective political or scientific opposition to the steady drumbeat of “climate emergency” mumbo jumbo, in which politicians state that everything less than tranquil in our weather is something we have caused, entirely blind to the fact that similar things have happened in the past. The whole premise of the “fight to save the planet” is ridiculous because the objective is to create a cooler “normal” climate so that the extremes (including the cold ones) won’t happen any more. But during the cooler 19th century and early 20th century, there were more weather extremes than we see nowadays, every record set in the past fifty years has its match (usually something even more extreme) in that pre-AGW era. The whole thing is a giant scam meant to enrich the shareholders of a few corporations profiting from massive energy subsidies. The sooner this is understood, we won’t need to be spending 20% to 100% more to purchase just about every common commodity. And the professional doomsayers will be out of a job, as they should be.

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