Winter

WTN — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 06:01:04 +0000

In the Northern hemisphere Winter starts on December 21 and ends on March 21. During the Winter months, days are short and nights long, ground is covered in snow and ice and air temperature is often below 0°C (32F) or well below.

Few days latter Christmas is celebrated. Winter also “hosts” on January 1st, the New Year’s Day, the first day of the new year.

It’s not over until it’s over

WTN — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:03:57 +0000

Spring may have arrived more than a month ago but as they say it’s not over until it’s over, and that applies to the winter weather throughout Canada. This year winter was not as usual, at least for some of us, but the last snow in April did not disappoint many parts of Canada (discover).

After the April snow in Montreal we can usually say that another winter is behind us

In Montreal, last serious snowfall (that would be 15cm + (6 inches +)) was around New Years day, but weather stayed cold enough until early March so there was plenty of ice skating, skiing and sledding.

In this part of Canada spring this year came early and in March and April we had many exceptionally warm and sunny days. Nature woke up 3-4 weeks earlier than usually does, so snow is surprise only for already green trees and blossoming tulips who got covered with a white blanket of wet snow. What consequences will it have early spring and late snow on fruit orchards, vineyards etc. we’ll find out soon enough since this hopefully last snow of the season will be replaced with warm 20° C (68° F) in the next few days.

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Winter

It’s not over until it’s over