I just spoke to a friend of mine in Ottawa and she says it's -40C there today, although I think she meant with the wind chill. Nevertheless, that's why Ottawa is known as the world's coldest capital city (unless my memory is failing me).Stanley Doble said:This drives me crazy. You are in Glasgow which is the same latitude as Hudson's Bay, Labrador and Moscow. I am in southern Canada at the same latitude as Monaco. So how come you have green shoots and snow drops while we have -20C and hope the snow will be gone by the end of April?
Don't give me a lot of apcray about the Gulf Stream. It flows past the Maritime Provinces before it goes anywhere near Europe and a fat lot of good it does them. They are freezing worst than I am.
The Gulf Stream seems to have its chief effect on your side of the Atlantic in summer, producing unpleasant humidity (at any rate south of the American border).You are in Glasgow which is the same latitude as Hudson's Bay, Labrador and Moscow. I am in southern Canada at the same latitude as Monaco. So how come you have green shoots and snow drops while we have -20C and hope the snow will be gone by the end of April?
Don't give me a lot of apcray about the Gulf Stream. It flows past the Maritime Provinces before it goes anywhere near Europe and a fat lot of good it does them. They are freezing worst than I am.
For some reason I read that sentence as "The Weather Girl called for snow and last night she got 8 inches."Stanley Doble said:The Weather Girl called for snow and last night we got 8 inches.
Ottawa is farther south than Milan, Venice, or Portland Oregon. Farther south than Munich, Vienna, Paris and much farther south than Plymouth or London.
As of 10 o'clock tonight the temp in Ottawa is -19C. Today's Hi/Lo -16 / -25.