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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: You Won’t Be Able To Read This When You Want To
This is one of those things about our planet that people would want to look up on the Internet, but won’t be able to if it happens.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Grew Up Stopping
Growing up in Saskatchewan, prior to cell phones, it was common to encounter a car at the side of the road, and you’d slow and stop to check they were okay. They might not see another person pass by for hours, and could be in need of a rescue. We
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Weather Alert Dismantling
Write your MP and the weather office now please. you’re not going to like this but Environment Canada has decided to break the Weather Alert feature for the entire Toronto area. Contact your MP. https://t.co/8ErKVEH7xZ — things can’t possibly get worse (@hoverbeaver) December 30, 2020 In a year where unusual
Continue readingThings Are Good: Weather Doesn’t Matter Where There’s Good Bicycling Infrastructure
People opposed to multiple transit solutions often argue that it’s not worth building bicycle lanes because nobody rides in the rain. They couldn’t be more wrong. A new study from Germany looked into the use of bikes during poor weather and found that places with good bicycling infrastructure had more
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Begone Cold Snap!
We better have turned the damn corner on this cold snap. The week of -40 has well worn out its welcome. MATLAB Handle Graphics Let the great mini-thaw begin. More of this please.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Box Moving Settling Down
I’m moving into the box unpacking stage now, except there are still some other boxes to pack up and move first. It rained last night and showed a double rainbow to lots of people. The rain again this evening wasn’t hard enough to stop the baseball games going on at
Continue readingPostArctica: Dissolving Clouds
Came across this and began to wonder… If I could do it too… So today I dissolved some clouds using only the powers of my mind. It took longer than I thought it would.
Continue readingPostArctica: River High, Shore Erosion In Verdun
The Saint Lawrence has been much higher than usual this spring in Verdun. Today I walked between the Natatorium and the Marina and there were parts of the lower path already washed out. My first concern is that many trees along the shoreline have already leaned into the river and
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: It was a good Holiday
I had a good New Years and Christmas holidays. A shipping error, in my favour, was perhaps the most notable event. The weather was cold, and it’ll be -25 or colder at night this week, which hasn’t happened that long since perhaps last January. Was too busy to blog, but
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Martian Weather
Have a look at what Mars would look like if it had a proper weather satellite.
Continue readingknitnut.net: Hello, goodbye
It snowed yesterday: 20 cm. I think we broke the record for the most snow ever on April 6th, which was previously held by 1958.
Here are some of the Spring snowmen which sprung briefly to life yesterday:
Help me! I’m melting!
Zombie Spring Snowman will never die!
By the way, I miss you guys. I never […]
Continue readingTrashy's World: About that storm…
… that we had in Ottawa yesterday. All things considered, I think the City staff and equipment handled the situation the best they could. More than fifty centimetres of snow fell in about a 14 hour span… very challenging for City crews. Hop…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: This El Niño could be the worst ever
Remember El Niño 1998? The mild winter where we got more rain than usual in most places, while Montreal got the ice storm? Well, if the weather predictors at NASA are right, this winter could cause even more problems thanks to the warm weather phenomenon. I can’t say global warming
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: This El Niño could be the worst ever
Remember El Niño 1998? The mild winter where we got more rain than usual in most places, while Montreal got the ice storm? Well, if the weather predictors at NASA are right, this winter could cause even more problems thanks to the warm weather phenome…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: This El Niño could be the worst ever
Remember El Niño 1998? The mild winter where we got more rain than usual in most places, while Montreal got the ice storm? Well, if the weather predictors at NASA are right, this winter could cause even more problems thanks to the warm weather phenome…
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Merry Christmas 2015
Christmas #sundog is more awesome now. -22 #YQR pic.twitter.com/I0d18zvEeF — Saskboy K. (@saskboy) December 25, 2015 Construction on the #YQRstadium site is really progressing. Here's how it looked when @Capital_Pointe was announced. https://t.co/JtjcDu18yJ — John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) December 24, 2015 Wow, the progress on the #YQRstadium construction is amazing. Seats & turf in already. Sure […]
Continue readingTrashy's World: The world may be a bit crazy right now…
… but at least the weather is awesome – if you are a winter-hater like me! No white death powder in the forecast well into December! Woot! Yeah, Turkey has provoked war with Russia, the whole freaking world is freaking freaked out by what h…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Keeping Your Home Cool – Damn Heatwave
We’re having a nasty confluence of sorts here, a heatwave combined with the smoke from forest fires in three of the cardinal directions. This is definitely a ‘first world’ complaint as the people with real problems like having your house consumed by wildfire are hundreds of kilometres away. Professor
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Smoke ‘Em If You’ve Got Trees
We’ve only hand planted trees (and their heirs), but we also have smoke. If "forest fires" or "smoke" isn't trending in #YQR right now, what the heck are people looking at? It's like NYC smoggy when smoke blows in — John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) June 29, 2015 In just the last
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