March 7, 2002 at 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.
Previously: Haida Gwaii
Subsequently: Personal Pixels
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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