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I was out walking late last night and, ever so briefly and gently, got snowed on. It's not especially early in the year for that to happen for the first time in Edmonton. But it's a good time to resurrect my painstakingly-assembled chart, assembled from historical Environment Canada data, depicting the date of the first permanent snowfall in Edmonton—the day on which the snow falls, for real, and stays until spring. Remembrance Day is the break-even point.
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Comments (13)
My Edmonton winter rule is expect snow on or after Hallowe'en. Permanent or not, it's winter from that day.
Posted by Mike W | October 7, 2009 3:32 PM
Posted on October 7, 2009 15:32
My Edmonton winter rule is expect snow on or after Hallowe'en. Permanent or not, it's winter from that day on.
Posted by Mike W | October 7, 2009 3:32 PM
Posted on October 7, 2009 15:32
But, HELLO, mine has a chart.
Posted by Colby Cosh | October 7, 2009 4:59 PM
Posted on October 7, 2009 16:59
You may wish to refer to the original November 2005 posts discussing "permanent snow," which I have extracted from the Archive Sands for you.
Posted by Ryan Cousineau | October 7, 2009 5:06 PM
Posted on October 7, 2009 17:06
Colby, that link to the old site is a flashback to the good old days when you actually posted regularly and at length, back when I had your site as my homepage. Have you really been lifted so far out of dignified poverty that you have no time to blog anymore? I seriously can't think of anybody whose prose I enjoy more....Mark Steyn, The Onion, the late great Covered in Oil: all great, but none could quite turn a phrase with the same snark.
More, please!
Posted by Anonymous Long-time Reader | October 7, 2009 7:01 PM
Posted on October 7, 2009 19:01
Wut ALtR sed.
Posted by Crid [CridComment @ gmail] | October 7, 2009 10:18 PM
Posted on October 7, 2009 22:18
It didn't snow out here on hwy 43 and 540.
But I'm impressed by your informal record. I have my own, myself, based on memory - it's odd how seldom it meshes with the 0fficial stats.
People get paid a lot more than I do as a driver, or you as a columnist, to manipulate statistics.
Posted by Sand | October 7, 2009 10:59 PM
Posted on October 7, 2009 22:59
Option most used in Canada? Use sloppy but helpful census data. Canadians wont bother to pay close attention to your conclusions, and circa early 80s data can be freely combined with circa 00s results. Booya!
Posted by Sand | October 7, 2009 11:18 PM
Posted on October 7, 2009 23:18
In 2008 I lost a friend, Andy, to a random slaying. A few months later my next door neighboor, Melvin, was slaughtered in a bloody affair that took the cops five days to let me exit my apartment without booties and an escort.
We're supposed to belive that crime is down 25% since 1991. Lol, in 1991 Edmonton had never seen a drive-by or an execution, let alone wanton gang murders in the streets every week.
What kind of idiot accepts that report?
Posted by Sand | October 7, 2009 11:35 PM
Posted on October 7, 2009 23:35
Have you really been lifted so far out of dignified poverty that you have no time to blog anymore?
Right, because we all know how well Canadian newspaper writers are doing these days. If you taunted a dog this cruelly, you'd be locked up with embezzlers and kiddie touchers.
Posted by Colby Cosh | October 8, 2009 4:54 AM
Posted on October 8, 2009 04:54
It's still fun to revisit the good old days, and seeing how many links persist (and guess what was in the orphans) is good clean sport.
Posted by Crid [CridComment @ gmail] | October 8, 2009 7:26 AM
Posted on October 8, 2009 07:26
E.g., The second cite Cosh on this one foretells what will happens when Twitter arrives.
Ten words?
Posted by Crid [CridComment @ gmail] | October 8, 2009 2:31 PM
Posted on October 8, 2009 14:31
Right, because we all know how well Canadian newspaper writers are doing these days. If you taunted a dog this cruelly, you'd be locked up with embezzlers and kiddie touchers.
There! That's the kind of snark I'm looking for!
Posted by Anonymous Long-time Reader | October 9, 2009 10:55 PM
Posted on October 9, 2009 22:55