Nice mid 60s days. Spring!
Oh, the weather outside is...
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March in Central Alberta = the season of indecision. In the last couple of weeks we've had a cold snap, a chinook, snowy days, icy days, stormy days, nice days, and muddy/slushy days (we actually do have a season here between winter and spring that a lot of people refer to as "mud season"). There's still time for a major blizzard before winter's done.
It snowed yesterday and today. Not seriously, though. I've heard conflicting predictions for this weekend, either cold and snowy or the opposite. It doesn't really matter for me personally, as I'm not planning to go anywhere.
If I want to know if there's precipitation going on, I look out the window. If I'm going out and need to know which coat I should wear and if a toque and gloves are necessary, I check the Weather Network.
It snowed yesterday and today. Not seriously, though. I've heard conflicting predictions for this weekend, either cold and snowy or the opposite. It doesn't really matter for me personally, as I'm not planning to go anywhere.
If I want to know if there's precipitation going on, I look out the window. If I'm going out and need to know which coat I should wear and if a toque and gloves are necessary, I check the Weather Network.
Patine
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I was walking with a friend in downtown Edmonton just earlier today - this afternoon - and he slipped and broke his arm. An ambulance had to be called! The property owners here are legally required to clear ice and snow in front of buildings and land they own, but more owners of big property holdings (my friend slipped in front of a big housing area leased by a big real estate company) just eat the fines from complaints about snow and ice out front and don't do anything. It's becoming a real problem. But our city councils here are almost always plutocratically subservient - excuse me, "business community friendly," in the last several decades, so...
That's not good.
I got fed up with trying to maneuver my walker over and around the ice and slush downtown, and since I was close to City Hall, I went in to complain about it (cleaning the sidewalk and walkways by the library and park is the City's responsibility, as is making the intersections passable for pedestrians). Turns out that the person I talked to used to be one of the regular bus drivers I had 30+ years ago, so we had an amicable catch-up chat. His health isn't that good these days, so he was more understanding than a lot of the employees there would have been.
And today, for a change of pace, we get rain! Enough to make puddles and wet the ground under our cars.
It's been 32-34C (mid-90s?) here in southern India all week, with roughly 380% humidity. Blech.
@IglooDude that’s moist.
PPQ_Purple
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It's Friday night. I couldn't care less if it was literally raining axes.
Well, the rain stopped and the sun is out. Drying begins.
It's -31C here. I'm wearing 3 layers and about to put on a 4th.
Zkribbler
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30C wearing walking shorts 
aimeeandbeatles
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30C wearing walking shorts
I love how these two posts are almost complete opposites
amadeus
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48F / 8C here
I’ve lived here for almost a decade and I still can’t get the hang of the temperature in the stupid inferior foreigner C units.
Meters fine, kilograms fine. C? No, F me!
I’ve lived here for almost a decade and I still can’t get the hang of the temperature in the stupid inferior foreigner C units.
Meters fine, kilograms fine. C? No, F me!
Sunny and upper 60s today. Trees in bloom all over town. Delightful.
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It's still raining. Pretty sure the pacific cyclone has past and now we're just getting the rain we missed out on during the rest of winter. It's kind of crazy but I'm glad the rain did show up even if it's really late. Can't wait for my next trip up the coast to see all the greenery. The hills around me are already turning emerald. 
Patine
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It's still raining. Pretty sure the pacific cyclone has past and now we're just getting the rain we missed out on during the rest of winter. It's kind of crazy but I'm glad the rain did show up even if it's really late. Can't wait for my next trip up the coast to see all the greenery. The hills around me are already turning emerald.
Only Irish hilsl turn emerald. You'll need to use another slightly different shade of green. Photoshop should be handy for that.
stfoskey12
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It got up to 84F/29C here today, and it should get close to 90F/32C tomorrow. It only hits 90 in March about once a decade on average here.
A foot of snow yesterday, sunny and 5C here today, and a foot of snow forecasted for tomorrow.
I love spring.
I love spring.
