You’ve seen the show Jeapordy right? You know how it works. You’re given an answer and then you have to ask the question. Okay. Let’s play a round, it will be fun!
I’ll take Weather In Canada for $500, Alex!
Answer: Weather that makes you want to throw yourself off a bridge.
Question: What is snow in mid-April?
Yes! You’re right!
Looks like November doesn’t it? Like Christmas is just around the corner. It certainly doesn’t look like what you should get while walking to the store on April 12th. And it’s supposed to snow some more tomorrow. GREAT.
While sitting here tonight I heard snow plows going by. In mid-April, almost a month after Spring started. Just mere days after the four of us went to the park and enjoyed fresh air, and grass, and being outside.
Please explain to me why I live here again.
Same reason I do. Abundance of bridges.
Stupid effing snow. I’m with ya, babe.
I would say you’d be glad to be up there when it is 95 degrees and 100% humidity down here between May and October, but I seem to remember similar weather up there when I came to Canada to escape my horrible weather.
Must be related to the “roots” thing. I moan about the weather every winter; I moan about the weather every summer … yet here I stay. It is incredible looking at the pictures though. Nice spring type weather … and then right back to winter. Ewww
I tell people I don’t hate snow until April. After 6 months of snow you bet I hate winter. And just like you mention, most especially after a few warm days that are just teasers!
as I sit here looking at the snow fall outside my window on a snowy Ottawa morning in APRIL I’m asking myself the same damn question..seems like summer will never arrive!
LOL. I feel your pain. We got 30 cm of snow last Saturday, though a lot of it melted, thank god. It snowed some more this morning but luckily it has turned into rain – along the coast, anyway. They’re getting wallopped with snow the more inland you go
That’s insane dude. Let’s move to Hawaii together, Sherry!
you live in canada because:
[a] HOCKEY (although as a buffalo girl i hafta say LETS GO BUFFALO!)
[b] POUTINE (and the fact that they dont look at you like you have three heads when you request malt vinegar to go with your french fries)
[c] labatts bleu
[4] coffee crisp bars
and dont feel bad because it was miserable and RAINY here in nyc these past few days and honestly….id take a inch or two of snow over it being just about freezing and windy and rainy. MISERABLE.
I’m in the states, in Wisconsin. I’ve been asking myself the same question for two weeks. We got about 9 inches of snow on Wednesday. But, yesterday it was in the 50’s and is now almost gone. That does not, however, diminish the misery that was Wednesday. My pictures of it are on my flickr site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tmr628/
Easter Sunday for us was colder than it was on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. We were in the 40’s then; Easter, the high was something like 28 (that’s Fahrenheit).
What is a day full of winter flurries ?
Dang, I picked exactly that thursday to go riding a bike. I picked it up at 10 AM, wearing just a sweater. The weather had been great before and somewhere on a news broadcast I heard things like 10 degrees hot and sunny so I expected more of what we had thursday.
The guy in the bike shop looked at me oddly and said I should dress warmer, so I went back to the hotel to put my jacket on instead.
I wanted to go over the jacques cartier bridge but ended up driving the wrong way for about half an hour and ended up in little italy before I started wondering where that silly harbor was.
By the time I got anywhere near that harbor it was snowing like crazy and after sheltering for an hour in different locations with the bike, I decided to turn it in after only having it for three hours and taking the metro instead.
Those tourist passes are a bliss, I ended up in quite a few middle of nowheres (taking metro lines right to their end and then jumping onto a random bus, quite funny in fact 🙂
Had some poutine too at one of the stops, I wasn’t sick but just appaled that no matter how good I tried to soak the fries and the cheese, I ended up with half a platter full of poutine souce that seemed like a terrible waste to throw away, I did though, I didn’t drink it 🙂
But yeah, an odd day I tell you, I enjoyed it though, haven’t seen so much snow in years.
Here in quebec city I tried to climb a snow mountain only to sink up to my knees in snow, oh vey, good I had my snow boots on, if it were my regular shoes I would never have seen them again.
Then there is this waterfall that just comes out from beneath the ice to fall down into a snowhole just to continue on below the snow up to the St. Lawrence river. Yep, this must be Canada allright, eh ? 🙂
(There is something to say about those silly t-shirts trying to explain why canadians say eh, I have some more pictures you might like but no means to show them before I get home)
It was a nice day today, tomorrow I’m heading back in the direction of Montreal to catch my flight home. I’ll miss it, I’m sure.