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Week One: Feels like we got more snow in the last two weeks than we got in the last two years.
Above was a common sight in Arnprior this week. After two winters with hardly enough snow to satisfy cross country skiers, we got walloped with about two feet of snow one week and then more again on Saturday, January 5th and Sunday, January 6th.
+ At 2:23 pm 25 April, 2012 (47˚F/8˚C and overcast in Arnprior with a good chance of rain…)
After months of zero activity here, we’ve had 3,206 hits so far today, 1,465 yesterday and 693 on Monday. And no- it has nothing to do with local politics. (Even if 6 of 10 members of the town council were wearing Sens jerseys to support the Ottawa Senators in their bid to close out the first round of Stanley Cup playoffs on Monday…) It’s over a comment that somebody made and somebody else challenged about an American C.I.A. airplane going down with 4 tonnes of cocaine aboard.
All Politics is local and all news is universal?
Our psychic friends tell us that anybody trying to keep explosive (political or ‘other’) secrets will be ‘outed’ by history and public awareness as everybody seems to be waking up and pulling the wool away from their eyes.
If the big bad string pullers tighten their hold on the truth, well, like Princess Leia told Darth Vader and Governor whatsisname, -“The tighter you clench your fist, the more the truth will slip through your fingers…”- or something like that.
~~~~~Jim
Wednesday, (Groundhog Day), February 2, 2011. Golden Sunlight coming through this tree was almost physical, I’m glad I almost captured that here. While nastier than usual storms hit all around us, Arnprior somehow missed its usual accumulation of snow. But then Groundhog Day happened and boom. Welcome to winter.
—————Jim
There was a misty rain in the night. The morning crept in on us, grey and damp, but not raining.
(It was 16˚C/62˚F at 9:30 this morning)
—————Jim
Thursday, May 6, 2010. I couldn’t get the whole cloud in a snapshot. It was weird. Shaped like a huge slug. Very dark cloud, heading for Ottawa? This was taken at about 7 am.
—————Jim
-Monday, 08 March, 2010. 8˚C @ 3:00 pm.
This photo was taken by Cathi Harris a couple days ago. She caught the ducks landing on the water. Snow is melting. I wish I could say hearts were melting too. I heard a politician giving a speech this afternoon. He was stumbling over the phrase “The Great Recession” that I believe he was trying to use, maybe to coin, for the financial mess the media have been trying to convince us we’re in the middle of. I heard somebody else explain that this is an attempt to manipulate millions of people into a panic so a few unscrupulous people who want to rule them can take action toward that end. Anyway, the politician stumbled over the words and it sounded like “the great reception” and then my brain went to work and called it “The Great Deception.” Wouldn’t it be nice if that description sticks and we throw the bumbs out and start again with a nice clean slate?
—————Jim
-Tuesday, 02 March, 2010:
The thermometer that appeared magically after my van was last serviced said it got up to +4˚C today (about 40˚F?)
The sun was bright and it looks like we might actually get a springtime this year. (Should we be surprised? No- but it helps?)
—————Jim
-28 February, 2010, Arnprior, Ontario, Canada.
The above photo doesn’t quite capture the feeling, but there is just the faintest trace of Spring in the air this morning.
—————Jim
Friday, 26 February, 2010:
I believe we got about 15-20 cm of heavy wet snow yesterday, the bulk of it falling in the evening.
It wasn’t pretty, it still isn’t.
I might have gotten a more spectacular photo earlier, when the heavy trucks were doing their thing.
It’s about +2˚C at 11:00 am, and is a lot more sloppy and wet than anything else.
—————Jim
– 11:33 am, Thursday, February 25, 2010.
The temperature dropped 3 degrees from 0˚C to -3˚C between 8:30 and 9:00 am. The weather network has changed their forecast a couple times. They’re still forecasting a high of +1˚C with rain mixing with the snow. But their Storm Centre is calling for 5-10 cm of snow in Ottawa and 15-25 cm of snow in Pembroke, and we’re about halfway between the two.
Time might tell?
—————Jim