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It's -6 here, the lowest temperature for 2021.

We went to our friends' place for supper last night. They live about 15 km from here. When we left, the police were blocking the road that goes from their house down a steep hill about 200 metres to the highway back to Victoria. They said the road was sheer ice, and the highway was blocked from the intersection at the bottom of the hill to Royal Oak, about 4 km south. They said that the highway crews would be out in about an hour. This was at 10:00 PM. They did say we could take the road in the other direction and work our way east and then south to Royal Oak at which point we could get back to the highway.

The roads were covered in black ice with a light dusting of snow. Even walking on them was treacherous. The road we had to take had two major hills, one with a 20% grade and both hills and several curves! Needless to say, we inched our way down both hills at about 3 kmh. Before we started, I had let a car go ahead of me, and he was just as careful as we were. However there were two cars behind us who thought we should be going a lot faster. We did make the 7 km detour with no issues, other than white knuckles, and once we got onto Royal Oak near the highway, the two cars behind us passed us on the right (wrong side in this country) and went zooming off. (By that time the road had been salted and it was just wet pavement.) But, I thought, better to take a few extra minutes on a dangerous road than spend a couple of hours piled up in the ditch at the bottom of a hill.

As for the forecast of 10 cm of snow, they overestimated by a factor of 10! The view outside is about the same as it was yesterday at this time. Just a trace of snow on the grass, parked cars and gardens. The little bit of snow that had fallen on the roads and sidewalks yesterday had melted and then frozen, hence the sheen of black ice.

Black ice is how I broke my wrist a few years ago.

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Christmas temperatures (F):
High ................................. 58
Normal high .......................... 38
Year ago ............................. 23
Record high .......................... 67 (1895)
Low .................................. 53
Normal low ........................... 25
Year ago ............................. 14
Record low ........................... -12 (1983)

Ouch!!!

Michael wrote: ↑Sun Dec 26, 2021 3:39 pm As for the forecast of 10 cm of snow, they overestimated by a factor of 10! The view outside is about the same as it was yesterday at this time. Just a trace of snow on the grass, parked cars and gardens. The little bit of snow that had fallen on the roads and sidewalks yesterday had melted and then frozen, hence the sheen of black ice.

Your snow came down here instead. The straight line distance between Michael's house and mine is 143 km. They had forecast 1-3 inches for the entire day today. As of 11 AM there is 7 inches (18 cm) on the ground and still heavy snow coming down.

I don't think the forecasters are looking out their windows. The latest forecast calls for a slight chance of snow today with 1 inch accumulation.

It started as a very fine misty snow at 11 PM last night. So we barely had a white Christmas.

I haven't gone over to check yet, but I'm guessing the steep four lane street a half block from my house is closed and the kids are going down it with their sleds.

We have some light snow here. It started about two hours ago. These isn't much accumulation though.

We recorded -9.2C this morning. It's the coldest morning since we've been here. Our weather station became operational in May, 2015. The lowest temperature it recorded up until today was -7.4. Using the data from U Vic, the lowest temperature since we arrived here in April, 2012, was -7.8. That was set 08 December 2013. Mind you, for all that, -9.2 C is still 40 degrees Celsius above what I experienced in Whitehorse.

4C and cloudy here just after noon.

12:19 Raining - again

So far we've had 68 hours with temperatures below zero. I was curious about what were the most hours with temperatures below zero. The date shows the Year, Month, Day and Hour that the sequence was broken. Depending on which forecast you believe, we could have another 45 hours or so until we get to zero or above.

We got up to +0.1C at 1 AM this morning, so our spell of consecutive hours below 0C ended at 101 hours. We had 7 cm of snow overnight.

Warmest New Year's Eve ever in Britain reaching 15.8C. It isn't quite as warm as that where I am but was 13C overnight last night and then weirdly a bit cooler during the day (around 12C)

Currently 15C where I am, south of London.

11C and cloudy here around noon.

I might concede and put a long sleeve t-shirt on to go out at midnight. The jacket will stay on its peg.
Thinking of what to do when the hibernation fat-and-ready hedgehogs are flaked out on the grass with heat stroke

Went for a walk round a country park in Cheshire with brother. Sat on bench and had a picnic lunch. OK I was wearing a jacket but no sweater and this is New Year's Eve. Crazy

Around 1pm New year's Day and it's 14C

Around 9:20am New year's Day and it's 13C
Raining

The records are from the Victoria University Cs weather station, the ones in red from my
home weather station. We are fairly close to the U Vic weather station, and our values are
usually very close to theirs. Our weather station started recording in May 2015.
U Vic period of record: 1993-01 - 2020-12.
Note: This weather station has frequent outages, so take these numbers as a guide.

Our highest temperature: 39.9.
The highest temperature was 37.6 set in 2009.
The normal annual maximum temperature is 31.7.
In 2011 the highest temperature was only 28.0.

Our mean temperature: 10.9.
In 1998 the highest mean temperature was only 12.2.
The normal annual mean temperature is 11.0.
The lowest mean temperature was 9.8 set in 2011.

Our lowest temperature: -9.2.
The lowest temperature was -11.2 set in 2008.
The normal annual minimum temperature is -5.4.
In 2015 the lowest temperature was only -1.3.

Our total precipitation: 1150.4 mm.
The wettest year was 2006 with 822.9 mm of precipitation.
The normal amount of precipitation is 646.2 mm.
The driest year was 2000 with 398.0 mm.
In November, we had 346.9 mm of precipitation, which is over
half the amount we would get in a normal year. It was almost
as much as U Vic recorded in the year 2000!

We had 169 days with precipitation.
The year with the most days of precipitation was 2007 with 202 days.
The normal number of days with precipitation is 165.
The year with the most days of precipitation was 1993 with 118 days.

It cooled off today!
At 8:30pm it is -1C

Here in Northern Virginia it was in the 60s (Fahrenheit) yesterday and right now it is 31F and WON'T STOP SNOWING.

Pittsburgh at 1015am has -5C / 23F

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Sky has developed a strange pale blue tinge