Archive for the ‘weather’ Category
Of Weekends Snow and Blogs
18, Jan 2009What a weekend! Spent yesterday morning running errands, topped off by washing my it’s-not-supposed-to-be-white black car. I drove it immediately into the parking garage with a minimum of redirty-ing too, which is nice. Normally I’m all about washing my car so it looks spiffy, because I do love my car, but in the winter time [...]
Weather Challenge Update 2009
7, Jan 2009Today’s the first nasty weather day of 2009, and I had to update the Weather Challenge tally. Both the Weather Network and Environment Canada got it right again, so they both got one point each. It’s actually a real hodge-podge of weather, with everything from snow to freezing rain to rain to ice pellets. Thankfully [...]
Weather Challenge Update-December 13
13, Dec 2008My sister will complain I haven’t been updating y’all enough on the Weather Challenge, so here you are: This past week I had to work from home two days not because of all the snow, but rather because the temperature fluctuated so much that any snow that fell melted and was frozen into some slippery [...]
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Weather Challenge-Round 2
9, Dec 2008As you can see, both combattants scored a victory over the last week, but The Weather Network is still in the lead. Don’t fret dear readers though, it appears there will be three chances for Environment Canada to pass TWN and take the outright lead this week! Yes, the forecast for Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday [...]
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The Weather Challenge
30, Nov 2008With all the commuting I do for my new job, knowing what the weather’s going to be like tomorrow is important. Here in Canada I have two sources for that information: Environment Canada and The Weather Network. Normally they’re both very close to what the weather is actually doing, but lately I’ve noticed they’ve been [...]