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IntravenousDemilo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 02:19 PM
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It's blizzarding here in Toronto. Total whiteout in my part of town. PLUS thunder and lightning!
What the hell is next? Frogs raining from the sky?
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 02:21 PM
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1. Since early this morning (like 4 am), we've had rain, freezing rain,
downpour, and some snow mixed in, all blown about by 50 mi/hr winds.

Frogs from the sky would be a realistic expectation at this point.
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lazyriver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 02:21 PM
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2. I'll let you know tomorrow when all that fun finds its
way to Maine!
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 02:22 PM
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3. its been like that in Wisconsin also. elect off for several hours
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 02:28 PM
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4. Thunder blizzard follows tornados and
70 degrees yesterday. This morning the snow was blinding for a short while with lightning and thunder. Last night tornado warnings in the county below mine, lots of warnings. It was so warm and nice but today it is 34 with a big big wind.

Spring in Kansas, this is really not all that unusual for us.

I think I will skip the frogs though. Let me know how that goes ;).
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IntravenousDemilo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 02:31 PM
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5. As terrya wrote to me just now:
"No, no...of course we're not tampering with weather. Why would you think a silly thing like that?"
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 02:55 PM
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16. I don't know about your weather
but this really is not unusual for us. I have seen this more times than not this time of the year. What is happening to you may very well be out of the ordinary.

All that being said, I totally agree with you about the weather tampering, it is just not unusual here in Kansas for this to occur.
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ClusterFreak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 02:31 PM
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6. only slight and intermittent freezing rain here along Lake Erie in Niagara.
Keeping my fingers crossed...good luck to you too.
:hi:
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hippiechick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 02:31 PM
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7. nah, it's just thundersnow ...
... happens quite often, actually.


:hi: Stay warm !!
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IntravenousDemilo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 04:16 PM
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19. Back in Saskatchewan, I never saw this shit.
Snow was meant for winter, thunderstorms for summer, and never the twain would meet. It's only in the past couple of years that I've experienced "thundersnow", and it still seems like it's the end of the world.
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Lisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 10:04 PM
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22. yes -- I suspect it's probably more common in the US than Canada
I grew up in Ontario, and we very seldom had thunder and lightning in the winter (though we did get massive thunderstorms and even tornadoes in the summer). And when I moved out to the West Coast, the weather stats confirmed that thunder at any time of the year was scarce, let alone in the winter. (It made headlines when the local Wal-Mart was hit by lightning in midwinter, a couple of years ago.)

One scientist told me that muskox herds are milling around in confusion, in the high Arctic, when they hear thunder (unfamiliar to them) -- it's been happening in recent years, presumably due to global warming.
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dogday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 02:32 PM
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8. I hope you stay safe and warm
:hi:
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 02:35 PM
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9. I'm in the east end of TO ...
... I can just BARELY see the houses across the street!
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Lisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 10:06 PM
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23. snow flurries in Victoria yesterday -- the flowering trees downtown
Edited on Thu Mar-01-07 10:07 PM by Lisa
... were coated with flakes. People were freaking out -- carrying on as if the world were coming to an end! I had to laugh.

Although I've lived here for more than a decade, and snowfall is pretty rare, this close to spring.
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 02:36 PM
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10. happens regularly down here in Kansas
called 'thundersnow'. I would think it could be a spring phenomenon anywhere.
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Ioo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 02:36 PM
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11. SNOWNADOS!!!
I have 2 dreams in life, to see a Snownado (Snow + tornato) or a SNOWACANE (Snow + Huricane)

Be safe!!!
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BlueStorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 11:46 PM
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29. That would be so freakin' cool!!!
Seriously though, I hope everyone will be safe and warm.

Blue
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MissB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 02:37 PM
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12. Excellent!
Not really, but it sounds really cool.
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jeanarrett Donating Member (813 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 02:38 PM
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13. Weird, but I've seen it too!
I was driving up to the Upper Pennisula (Michigan) a couple of years ago on Thanksgiving weekend and it was a total blizzard whiteout and thundering and lightening overhead at the same time. I've lived in Michigan my entire life (40 plus years) and it's the first time I'd ever experienced those three weather items at the same time. I wasn't sure what planet I was on for a while. :)
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buzzard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 02:39 PM
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14. It is blizzarding next to Toronto as well (Oakville) I feel like I am in a
snowy globe that has just been shook up. We have no thunder and lightening though.
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KatyaR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 10:32 PM
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24. Oakville--isn't that where Ridge Radio broadcasts from?
I love that station!

Stay safe and warm!
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SidDithers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 11:43 PM
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I'd never heard of them until now...
but you're right, we're the same Oakville.

Cheers.

Sid
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SidDithers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 11:40 PM
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26. Hey, another Oakvillian here!
Us DUers are everywhere!

Sid
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buzzard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 11:43 PM
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27. I am always surprised by the geographic location of the members of this board. We need to have a
meet up of us Ontario members.
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SidDithers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 11:44 PM
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28. I'd be up for that...
great sig line btw :)

Sid
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buzzard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 11:56 PM
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31. Thanks no one has ever commented on it but I love Darwin. I would love to
meet up with other DUer's in this part of the world. If you are up to it let me know.
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 02:49 PM
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15. i`m sitting in the middle of all this in northern illinois
waiting for the wind to change and bring what`s ever left from the plains storm
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 02:56 PM
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17. Be safe
it was a goodie. The clouds were amazing, just really spectacular. I was lucky to be just north of the bad weather but close enough to feel and see it.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 03:04 PM
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18. Strange weather, eh, for your
part of the world?
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Bukowski Fan Donating Member (118 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 04:45 PM
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20. We had some thundersnow down here in S Minn
It's pretty intense. The skies just kinda open up and the snow comes pouring down, total whiteout. Probably got 2 inches within an hour.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 04:49 PM
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21. Yikes! I'm in Ottawa and I see it heading my way
Keep sending posts for as long as you can.

We'll never forget you.
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crappyjazz Donating Member (886 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 11:52 PM
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30. It whipped through Kingston
but didn't last too long tonight ... we might get some later, not sure. drive safe everyone
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Telly Savalas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 11:00 PM
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25. Look on the bright side
Harper will have to pull the troops out of Afghanistan so they can return to Canada to shovel snow in Toronto.
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