Weather Jan 2010

[jpurssey]

While we in Australia have been sweltering in record heat-waves, the Northern Hemisphere has been having severe cold weather and snow. So how are you managing?
Anne, I hope your heating is all sorted out now. It must be hard for people who live in caravans. My niece lived in a tent in England for many years. I was amazed that she chose to live that way. Her mother said she was the healthiest person in the family.

[Flora Preston]

While we in Australia have been sweltering in record heat-waves, the Northern Hemisphere has been having severe cold weather and snow. So how are you managing?

Here in eastern Ontario, the weather has been really weird. Early January was bitter cold; but lately it is unseasonably warm. For the last few weeks, the temperature has hovered near the freezing mark - plus or minus a few degrees. The snow is melting and some ice on the waterways has become thin and been declared unsafe. On Monday this week, it was plus 7 C. and pouring rain. We got about 41 mm of rain. My husband was unable to go to work because the roads were too icy. The rain hitting the frozen ground had turned to ice. We were very grateful that the power held. It has felt like spring.

The forecast says it is to turn cold again this weekend.

Flora

[Rob]

Hi John – Flora etc.,
I thought it was only the Brits that endlessly conversed about the weather. So you hit our subject. It’s as always good here in Barbados hot but not too hot sea breeze and wonderful.
But back in UK they had the worst weather in years. The last heavy snow like this one in the city we came from was in 1983. It was also very nostalgic for me when to see Altnarhara (a tiny village in the north of Scotland) on the BBC international news, the temperature there was -22 C, when taking ‘wind chill’ into account. I remembered my wife and me on a touring holiday passing through there about a year after we were married. We did not know where we were going – but just looked at all the smallest roads on the map and took them. Anyway this place had about on guest house and no vacancies. We slept overnight in the car, in a layby on a single track road, in the middle of a large deserted totally flat landscape. In the darkness we could see the eyes of deer reflecting the car head lights. Fond memories!

[jpurssey]

I have fond memories of snow, but I wouldnm't really want to be experiencing it.

I hear Pennsylvania is having a lot of snow at the moment. I always tend to think that it must be worse/colder in Canada.

I woke up this morning to a full rain gauge, over 125mm or 5inch rain.

I hope the floods won't prevent me getting to our house church as I have the bread and the wine.

[Elizabeth]

I hope the floods won't prevent me getting to our house church as I have the bread and the wine.

Dear Bro. John,

The weather here in western Canada is unseasonably mild. It is about 60 degrees here and the flowering almond trees are out about six weeks before their time.

Perhaps, when you have time, you might want to start a thread on how your house church is flourishing. I am sure it will be. If you feel it is too soon to make formal reports, we will understand.

Only by grace,

Elizabeth

[Flora Preston]

The weather here in western Canada is unseasonably mild. It is about 60 degrees here and the flowering almond trees are out about six weeks before their time.

Yes, but Elizabeth, you live in BC. BC typically has much warmer weather than the rest of Canada. However, the fact that it is even more warmer than usual, is making preparations for the Olympics tricky. I understand that they are trucking in snow from other parts of Canada to try and get enough snow on the ski hills.The long term forcast is calling for rain - not snow - for the beginning of the Olympics. The rain will make the snow melt or turn it into a sheet of ice. Let's hope the weather surprises us and turns colder instead, so that the expected rainfall comes in snow.

I'm baffled as to why they chose the warmest province in Canada to host the winter Olymipcs. I hope they have back up plans ready to implement. It will be interesting or else very embarrassing to watch.

Flora

[modesty]

Here in Canada in artic pole (30 days without sun) the sun appeared in January.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php ... 9923615128
http://www.facebook.com/TropicanaCanada

[Luis Been]

Hi guys, Santo Domingo is usually hot this days, but now we are about 18 C, wich is cold for us.