Oh, the weather outside is...
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Apparently there's a comet coming later this month that we should be able to see very nicely in the northern latitudes. Its orbit is something in the neighborhood of 50,000 YEARS, so it's from waaaaay out in the Oort Cloud.
Bets on the clouds <censor>ing up my chances of seeing this once-in-a-bazillion lifetimes comet?
I'm not optimistic.
Bets on the clouds <censor>ing up my chances of seeing this once-in-a-bazillion lifetimes comet?
I'm not optimistic.
Zardnaar
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Hit 25 maybe higher today.
Been snowing here for 2 days straight. It wasn't sticking yesterday or even this morning, but its sticking now finally. Snow is starting to accumulate on unpaved surfaces. Paved surfaces are still melting the snow for now.
Zardnaar
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Overcast and forecast for 16.
Its starting to be the same every year... no snow at Christmas, when you actually want snow, but then snow starts coming in Feb and March when you don't want snow anymore 
Windy and cold; into the 20s tonight.
EgonSpengler
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We stole them. I've barely had to turn on the heat in my apartment this winter.
It was snowing furiously here for a couple of hours yesterday afternoon, but it appears to have amounted to almost nothing, maybe an inch or two. That said, like @Sommerswerd, we've turned to having crazy Februaries the last several years. February of 2015 was like a Cloverfield movie: 96"/244cm in a single month.
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We were digging trenches in the snow like we were buying time for the shuttles to evacuate Echo Base.
The Atlantic, 17 February 2015 - "What Record-Breaking Snow Really Looks Like"
Note that the photo below, dated the same day as the article, was taken only halfway through the storms. The last storm of the season was on March 15, and the total ended up at 108.6"/2.76m.
Spoiler :
This photo shows the very block were I got stranded one evening, because the local transit authority was forced to shut down the entire rail system. The snow was falling so fast - 20" had fallen that day - the trains were getting bogged down, and meteorologists were projecting another 18-24 inches for the following day. The rail shutdown was on February 9; this photo is dated February 15.
Spoiler :
Zardnaar
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Gray day here today.
Looking at these photos reminds me of Frost Punk.We were digging trenches in the snow like we were buying time for the shuttles to evacuate Echo Base.
The Atlantic, 17 February 2015 - "What Record-Breaking Snow Really Looks Like"
Note that the photo below, dated the same day as the article, was taken only halfway through the storms. The last storm of the season was on March 15, and the total ended up at 108.6"/2.76m.
Spoiler :
This photo shows the very block were I got stranded one evening, because the local transit authority was forced to shut down the entire rail system. The snow was falling so fast - 20" had fallen that day - the trains were getting bogged down, and meteorologists were projecting another 18-24 inches for the following day. The rail shutdown was on February 9; this photo is dated February 15.
Spoiler :
The other thing it reminds me of... is that when it snows like this you have to plan ahead, because once the snow freezes solid, it's like concrete, so you better make sure those paths and trenches are wide enough to fit what ever you would need to get through, because you aren't going to get another shot at defining the boundary until the snow melts.
Broken_Erika
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amadeus
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Some parts of Kyoto got snow, I didn't here in Osaka, but Wakayama to the south also did (under 5 cm), so Japan Railways has shut down everything and I was waiting to see if work would close today since some of my coworkers need to take JR.
EgonSpengler
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weatherstats.ca says Montreal got 342.2cm/134.7" in 2008, although that seems to go by calendar year rather than by winter season, so that's less helpful for comparing.
TheCleanerDragon
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Yesterday they were predicting 3-5 inches of snow in the morning. I go outside today and it's looking more like 3-5 millimeters.
