Curious Loth-catEight houses on the route home from the theatre continue to have Christmas lights up. Less than two weeks longer and they’ll make it to Easter!
James@DrJLecter Agreed—it's bitterly cold here right now, the coldest it's been all winter.
@lothcat I just woke up to -3C. We had a stupidly cold winter this year, so this isn't the coldest, but still so much colder than it needs to be srsly 😫
@DrJLecter Brrr! I think this is the coldest winter we've had, though surprisingly it's only snowed once.
@lothcat here we had more snow than in a decade! Which... Yes nice winter with snow, so rare. But. Spring now please 🥶
@DrJLecter Yes, I'm quite ready for spring. Hopefully it gets warmer for Easter!
AlsoPaisleyCat 🇨🇦It’s been relatively pleasant here, believably early spring with good weather for the sugar bush operators — slightly above 0 C in the day and below at night.
Today is beautifully sunny but snapped back down below -10 C with enough windchill to feel like -20 C, but a high slightly below 0 C promised for late afternoon.
But we know can always get snow anytime up to the end of April, and even in these Climate Change years, one still can’t count on the Victoria Day weekend in May as the frost free date for gardening.
So, we just go with the old church calendar and put Christmas things away on Candlemas February 2nd. We used to set up Easter Egg hunts in the snow in the backyard for our kids when they were little.
@AlsoPaisleyCat @lothcat we used to have snow at easter now and then and the famous cold spell for May isn't unusual either, but to have a continuously cold March like this or a whole month of february with snow, especially where I live is very much an outlier for the last two decades 😅
@DrJLecter
This year has been exceptional, I agree. If feels like a return to the 1980s and 90s.
But the frost on my tender plants the last week in May, the past two years in a row, underscores the increased volatility more than the overall heating.
@AlsoPaisleyCat @DrJLecter The weather here has become very volatile in the past few years. We never used to get heat domes in summer.
@AlsoPaisleyCat @DrJLecter West coast weather tends to be rainy and cold, but not usually bitterly so, at this time of year. The increase in windstorms makes it feel so much worse. We've gotten a few sunny and warm-ish days, though, that tricked us into thinking spring might be on the way.
An Easter egg hunt in the snow sounds very Canadian. I used to live in the interior of BC decades ago, where we'd still have snow well through Easter.