"mittens" schreef in bericht
...
:I haven't posted for a couple of days due to illness. Now I'm up and
: running in time to report an abrupt weather change in southern
: Ontario, much like what Colin experienced in Montreal in 1988. Rapid
: winter weather change is a hallmark of the Canadian climate.
:
: Yesterday morning we had a freezing rain warning as rain fell with a
: temperature of minus 2C. Eventually the temperature rose to plus 4C,
: so the warning was dropped. The weather remained rainy and plus 4C
: until nearly 7 am today, when a sharp cold came through bringing with
: it wind gusts of 100 km/h, whiteouts in heavy snowsqualls and a rapid
: freeze of melting snow and rainwater on roadways. From 7:00 am to noon
: the temperature fell from plus 3C to minus 8C with a minus 20C
: windchill. This is nothing like the Canadian Prairies where it has
: been minus 40C without the windchill, but it is cold enough.

Funnily enough I had just noticed this and was going to post about it !

Even more dramatic in Toronto
http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/CYYZ.html

Cold front that passed through Brussels today was feeble in comparison.

Colin Youngs
Brussels