Yo Alan.. Guess who gets a snow day. Moi. I drove alllllllll the way to the 401/37 interchange till I finally accepted that my plan to dive to work today was an adventure I didn't want to pay for with my life. ugh.. I did the "tap on the brakes JUST to see how bad it was" test and fishtailed.. WHen you have to drive with your tires in the snowy bit or the gravel shoulder JUST so you have some traction, its bad.

Anywho, I have two episodes of Poirot to watch as well as one Movei (Poirot at Christmas), driveway to eventually shovel (all 125 fete of it) and well, winter to appreciate and despise all at once. I'll trade it any day for a three months of rain and drearilness of Manchester.

http://www.triboard.on.ca/inclement.html Triboard bus Nazis won't put cancellations online.. Dealing with them is like dealing with the SS so I wouldn't bug them about it.

Please excuse typos. Fingers too cold and brain still blurry from all that white in my eyes for the past hour

At home, heat on. The classic Toronto winter storm rule is in effect: the ones they forecasts whiffle, the one they miss knock the city on its ass.

I figured it was easier to pretend to work at the office than at home. Took my time coming in and had no problems (I use all side streets anyway) but had to stop and think where my winter boots were.

Made it. No snow boots.

By some unexpected small miracle our corner of NY is a degree or two warmer than predited, and it remains rainy and green, despite icy/snowy predictions. All this could change. The news reported, Alan, that the various highways around the Syracuse area were closed due to multiple ice related accidents.
Be careful out there.

I love it when the weather soothsayers change the warnings AFTER one looks at the page. The snowfall warning that was alone there when I checked earlier is now gone and replaced with the dreaded freezing rain warning. What a lovely drive in. Idiots continuing to drive like it's July, having to avoid the fools as the slip and slide around ... Sigh

Then, I got peppered in teh face with ice pellets walking the 2 blocks from my parking space to the office.

Joe-FM does regular bus and school cancellation updates every 20 minutes or so in the morning

http://www.9wsyr.com/content/news/breakingnews.aspx?content_id=19134247-4ce1-444c-a015-b823942ba4ac

http://www.9wsyr.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=0bdc6c18-763d-442c-8052-fed6ab609026

And now we have big fluffy flakes.

When will the sensationalization of seasonal weather stop! The CBC and the Weather Channel are turning us into weather wusses. "Severe weather warning, don't go outside or you will probably die". The media hasn't invented enough superlatives to be ready for when the really bad weather does come.

it's all crap!!

What's crap, Paul my friend, is that all your cold and crummy weather blows down onto the lower 48. Forget fences to keep Mexicans out of California, build a fence across northern NY to keep out all that disgusting Canadian weather.

I actually get most of my crappy weather from the lower 48, Gary. If it's nasty in Boston today, it'll be nasty in Hali tomorrow.

I agree with Paul. I have gone running in +37 degrees celsius and -37. the only reason I didn't get to work today is that the 401 was a skating rink however I DID drive 30 minutes on another highway at 60km/h to find ths out and decided to give up and return. People are wimpy nowadays when it comes to a little wetahre related inconvenience.

Just to spite the storm, I threw on my winter gear and went for a hike through the woods for an hour. I was tracked by a coyote and when I doubled back I almost saw him/her. Living in Canada DOES have its benefits. Wild beasties that live in he woods near your house that may look scary but won't eat you.

Time to risk life and limb and run 6 km on icy roadways because I am bored Sh*$%less.

This dirty weather comes from the SW. We need a good spell of Canadian Prairie cold to clean things up.

Sniff.
I suppose the wind that usually blows across Lake Ontario, carrying a belt of Lake Effect snow, comes all the way direct from Moscow, not Ontario?
Seems like Ontario's lakefront is often more clear than us, as the moisture blows down this way.
It is fun to tease you folks about weather.
Today is a mystery: 47 degrees (6-8c?) earlier with one of the fiercest winds I have ever walked in during my lifetime, straight from the south, with black clouds and all. Do we blame this one on Florida and Mexico? Maybe....

http://www.9wsyr.com/content/weather/livedoppler9_static.aspx
NEATO!!!

You realize gary that:
http://www.9wsyr.com/content/weather/livedoppler9_static.aspx
NEATO!!!

is only neato when viewed at teh same time or shortly after you post it, being LIVE doppler radar and all that :)

My sister in law in Sask reports her 6ft fence has now gone missing and is not likely to reappear before March. Meanwhile, with five inches of snow on the ground Canada's answer to Club Med, Victoria, is bracing for another inch or, perhaps, two inches of snow before reverting to the reassurances of rain.

I blame George Bush. (Even thought it was a Democratic Senate which initially shelved Kyoto.)

I'm told that CFB Kingston had a stand-down this morning. That's right: volunteer to fight for your country, train with all kinds of deadly weapons to fight the bad guy, but DON'T COME IN, IT'S SNOWING!!!!

Paul's right, the bloody country's gone soft and it's all the Weather Network's fault. I like the CBC, so I won't blame them. :-)

Gorthos, I am not anybody's idea of technically savvy. The doppler showed the very wet and windy mass of weather stretching north from the Gulf of Mexico, suggesting that I was correct in noticing warm breezes from the south. It was huge. And multicolored!
Today a scant half inch has fallen and all the plows are racing up and down the street. The boys have had so little work all winter, and are eager to do something.

I don't mind the cold or the wind or the snow and ice so long as I am at home or hiking or whatever. I do however want every single day that I have to leave the house for any work related purpose to be 22 degrees celsius and sunny with big fluffly cumulus clouds on the horizon hinting at evening rains for my garden.

I just hate driving in the cr4p.