This weather normal?

[steelshot]

Back in ontario after being gone for 20+ years....Want to know is this temperature typical for this time of the year in ottawa/sothern ontario....Was precipitation/rain fall low this summer?

[kickingfrog]

The new normal is there is no normal. In south/central Ontario it was a very hot dry summer. Warm great Lakes leads to mild but potentially heavy/wet snow in winter. Here in the "snow belt" we've had many green Christmases in the last 15-20 years.

[Snowwalker]

The new normal is there is no normal. In south/central Ontario it was a very hot dry summer. Warm great Lakes leads to mild but potentially heavy/wet snow in winter. Here in the "snow belt" we've had many green Christmases in the last 15-20 years.

And just when we think that is normal, we'll be buried up to our butts in snow for three months.

[patvetzal]

It's getting to be more normal as each year goes on, not due to climate change as climate change does not exist.
our pond out back is about 6-7' lower than it used to be ten years ago, been like that each fall for a while.

[kickingfrog]

3 feet of snow was a slow month not that long ago here.

[steelshot]

Just moved back from nfld....Weather there is soul crushing....2010 we had 21 feet in one year....Best part of experiencing weather there was the weather bombs....Oh the weather bombs...Like the time we 50 centimetres of snow followed by 100 millimetres of rain....I love the weather here.... Here you shovel the snow...The snow stays were you put it....There you have your primary removal....Then you wait a couple hrs then you do your secondary removal about half the snow is back in your yard....Then final clean up after the 90-120 km winds die down....So a 50 centimetre storm is really 95cm....Just imagine when a 80cm storm blows in! You literally spend your day snow blowing....Till finally you say ''IM DONE IT IS GOING TO STAY THE WAY IT IS!'' Last year i shoveld once....People here really don't know how good they have it....Its not a storm until the plows give up because they can't see past their bonet of their trucks....And there is a chance first responders aren't coming unless it is an emergency....

[Snowwalker]

Same here.
Only thing living in it now are the gross blood suckers!

At least you have lots of bait.

[CalTek]

Change will be coming soon. Currently the Arctic air is trapped over Siberia. Once a Greenland block is in place and the cold air can migrate back this way we will be groaning about the cold and snow. Latest indications are snow likely in some parts of S. Ontario next week.

December into February expected to be cold and snowy as S. Ontario is set up this year to be a possible bullseye for active storm track with the positioning of the jet stream. Time will tell.

[mosquito]

... uh.... WAS there ever a "normal???? or are you thinking average.

My dad passed away over 20 years ago now and the last week of October was the 4 day pheasant season in Kent county, I can recall hunting in shorts and a wintercoat with 3" of snow another year. I was just thinking about the Christmas I was wearing a light jacket at my dad's. The one "normal" about the weather is that it changes.

Yep there is snow in the forecast to. http://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/on-130_metric_e.html

As for climate change .... "climate changes naturally" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExgKJpJyDXQ and I love where the University weather station was.. in a parking lot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjlPvwRP-fM


The lake Huron levels are the highest we have seen in the 10 years at the cottage by about a foot and I see ponds dry or way down...

[johny]

Back in ontario after being gone for 20+ years....Want to know is this temperature typical for this time of the year in ottawa/sothern ontario....Was precipitation/rain fall low this summer?

Definitely a 30 year warming trend since I've lived in NWOntario.
We used to ice fish April 14th.
Now I am in the boat in mid April in the back bays of Rainy Lake.

25 years ago I used to bring in green tomatoes to ripen indoors at first frost in early September.
Last fifteen+ years I get 100% outdoor tomato ripening
This year, I am still harvesting fresh veg from the garden in mid November --- in Division 10!! Kale, celery, spinach, radicchio, lettuce, beets and carrots. Mojito mint. Parsley.
30 years ago, local kids planned Halloween Costumes to be over snow suits. Not any more. It was 10+C this year at Halloween.

This year is exceptionally weird. Very warm. We've had only 3 or 4 days below freezing at night since August.
That's not normal.

Say want you want patvetzal 30 years of personal observation plus the majority of the world scientists (not connected to Oil Industry, Right Wingers or Conspiracy Theorists) agree-- the world is warming.