Home Desktop backgrounds About Attaboy the Archives Links elsewhere Photography Essays & writings Contact info Portfolio
Attaboy.ca

March 7, 2002 — 3 PM

In the Wintertime, The Living Is Easy

Warmest Winter on Record for Southern Ontario and Southern Quebec:

In Montreal, the winter was also exceptional. The average temperature was the warmest in more than 60 years (–3.3 °C), 5.4 °C above normal. For the first time since records began in 1941, the overnight lows did not reach the –20 °C mark. The number of days with highs above freezing reached 51, an unprecedented number.

Kyoto notwithstanding, all in all, it’s been nice.

Comments

While in Vancouver, amidst uncharacteristicly dry, small snow flurries, we had the lowest temperatures on March 7th, (okay, 0.7 C isn’t all that low) since 1951.

I wonder if the spirits are playing with us? Titania’s Forgeries of Jealousy speech echoes.

“The season’s alter: hoary-headed frosts/Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,/And on old Hiems’ thin and icy crown/An oderous chaplet of sweet summer buds/Is, as in mockery, set: the spring, the summer,The chiding autumn. angry winter, change/Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world,/By their increase, now knows not which is which:

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Act II,Scene 1

ls 106 - 114

laura stannard | Mar. 8, 2002 — 1 PM

Previously: Haida Gwaii

Subsequently: Personal Pixels

March 2002
the Archives
Home