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Canadians told to brace for 'classic' Canadian winter


Weather | 207115 hits | Nov 20 3:55 am | Posted by: Hyack
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Chris Scott, The Weather Network's chief meteorologist, says the message from his forecast team is "'buckle up' because it looks like a stormy winter." This year's La Nina weather system bears a striking resemblance to that of 2007-2008, when Toronto rec

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  1. by avatar BartSimpson Gold Member
    Mon Nov 20, 2017 5:20 pm
    Damn that global warming! It's causing a cold winter!

  2. by Thanos
    Mon Nov 20, 2017 5:22 pm
    Looking forward to it. Dry winters make my skin crawl.

  3. by avatar BartSimpson Gold Member
    Mon Nov 20, 2017 5:24 pm
    "Thanos" said
    Looking forward to it. Dry winters make my skin crawl.


    Ditto, says I, as it's raining outside!

  4. by Thanos
    Mon Nov 20, 2017 5:27 pm
    Hopefully the BC interior and northern Alberta get clobbered by snow this year. Best way to stave off the drought that keeps leading to these goddamn insane forest fires.

  5. by avatar Hyack
    Mon Nov 20, 2017 5:58 pm
    "Thanos" said
    Looking forward to it. Dry winters make my skin crawl.


    No crawling skin here, what I'm dealing with with these dry winters is flaky and itchy skin.....arrrrrgh!

  6. by avatar Strutz
    Mon Nov 20, 2017 10:22 pm
    Interesting. For this area:

    The CTV article forecasts above normal precipitation and below normal temps.

    The Farmers Almanac forecasts below normal precipitation and above normal temps.


    We shall see.

  7. by avatar Hyack
    Mon Nov 20, 2017 10:34 pm
    "Strutz" said
    Interesting. For this area:

    The CTV article forecasts above normal precipitation and below normal temps.

    The Farmers Almanac forecasts below normal precipitation and above normal temps.


    We shall see.


    Yep, I checked my 3 Canadian based almanacs and all 3 call for warmer than normal and drier than normal. Strange that all 3 are in agreement with each other.

  8. by avatar N_Fiddledog
    Mon Nov 20, 2017 10:51 pm
    "Hyack" said
    Yep, I checked my 3 Canadian based almanacs and all 3 call for warmer than normal and drier than normal. Strange that all 3 are in agreement with each other.


    I don't know about those, but you made me Google and I found some trivia for the 2 best-known Almanacs.

    While major news organizations might cheerfully report a farmer's almanac prediction, their doing so shouldn't lend much weight to the claims. But before we thoroughly confuse you, let's get one thing straight: There is both a Farmers' Almanac and an Old Farmer's Almanac. While they clearly have strong contradictory feelings about apostrophe usage, they can agree on one thing: Weather forecasting should be secret science, emphasis way more on "secret" than "science."

    The Farmers' Almanac was founded in 1812, and it is indeed the baby compared to the Old Farmer's Almanac and its 1792 origin. They both advertise that they rely on secret formulas to come up with their prognostications. The Farmers' Almanac uses "mathematical and astronomical" formulas, which are passed along from one (anonymous) prognosticator to another -- and only one at a time [source: Farmers' Almanac]. The Old Farmer's Almanac relies on a theory that weather is a result of magnetic storms on the sun's surface, and the forecasts are predicted based on a formula literally locked in a black box at headquarters [source: Old Farmer's Almanac].


    https://science.howstuffworks.com/natur ... eather.htm

    I wonder what the Candian ones use.

  9. by avatar martin14
    Tue Nov 21, 2017 7:00 am
    "N_Fiddledog" said
    Old Farmer's Almanac



    http://www.countryliving.com/life/a3989 ... edictions/

    About 80% right with their voodoo.

  10. by avatar Hyack
    Tue Nov 21, 2017 7:06 am
    And now we have The Weather Network and their $.02 worth...... :roll: :roll:

    Winter 2018 will be colder than last year, but forecasters split on how bad it will get

  11. by avatar DrCaleb
    Tue Nov 21, 2017 1:59 pm
    I hope there is more precip. I didn't have to shovel my driveway at all last year, and look at the terrible fire season we had. :(

  12. by avatar CharlesAnthony
    Tue Nov 21, 2017 2:55 pm
    Classic: Think of the shock experienced by early pioneers who came to clear this land many moons ago.



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