Watch out for the lows tomorrow and Thursday nights. They are calling for -20C here in Toronto and possibly as low as -28 (possibly to -30C for my place in Sydenham) for Trenton and Kingston... This will be a good late season test for our plants...
I think our extreme low came in March last year... Hopefully it won't have time to get even colder!!!

Well all the best I can do is a photo (Acacia dealbata - Feb.24-08 ) in the sunny Vancouver Island sky. Looks like you guys have your hands full back east! Warm up soon.

Cheers, Barrie.

May the weatherman be wrong... as he so frequently is out here.

I am enjoying the spring like weather. But it is still too early to be sure that we do not have another bout of -30*C weather.

Allen

The cold is back and more snow for Friday with 5-10 cm. For next week we might have 7C with some heavy rain possible but
it's going to cool down to -1C because of a possible cold front. Hope we don't get -30C or will harm my zone 5B only peach trees.

Nice photo and tree Barrie. Just bathing in the sun 😀

We need 25C weather for March but too rare.

Barrie, nice pic...I've never seen one of those 😯 nice!

Yuccaman, for a holiday you can come out to BC and help rebuild the fence,
and prune and prune.

But I did fit in some time to plant lettuce, spinach and kale today ("sow as early as ground can be worked").
Barb

I will see about coming out to BC but we might be planning a trip to Alberta. I would like to drop and help you.

We had a good mild spell of 10C at CFB Trenton and 14C in our yard. But we are getting a huge winter storm with a lot
of freezing rain and 8-10 hours of it.

This time of year we also can expect wild fluctuations.
Prince George yesterday woke up to two feet of snow!

Hope that freezing rain system has moved away!
Barb

Not much freezing rain but the ice pellets accumulated to 8 cm.

Were are getting 30 to 60 cm of snow for Saturday and we have 30 cm in our yard and we should have 90 cm in our yard and
more storms might make it up to 100 cm. The whole forecast is cold but little sunny but more snow will follow.

Hopefully April will not be like this but we can have 20 to 26C weather and will cause severe flooding and we are screwed.

This draging out of snow/wintery weather that we're experienceing is making me angry... I'm ready for sunny skies and 30 degree weather (celsius)!

Apparently we need 27cm of snow to break the ALL-TIME snowfall record here in Toronto (from 1938!). They're calling for 15-25 tonight and tomorrow...

The only positive thing I can say is that we haven't really been blasted with cold, Toronto Island sit at 7a for the winter, and Pearson at 6b... My place, near Kingston, is 5b/6a... Not bad really. Plus, the deep snow is a fantastic insulator...

Oh, man, that's brutal. 😯
Yuccaman are you in Ontario too? (or Manitoba).

Just got this from a friend in southern Saskatchewan:
We've been promised warmer temps for over a week now and every night it dips down to -27C to -30C

Barb

I am in Ontario around the northeastern shore of Lake Ontario and we are in the area that will get the most snow 30 to 40.
It was 30-60 but changed somewhat.

Got my meter stick and my yard is at 63 cm and is getting higher and nearing the top the stick. I can't believe my grandfather
loves this garbage when it gets near 70 cm and drifts up to 100 cm high and snow hills that are 10 feet high.

People I know are really depressed because of this and the just never go outside. I never really seen a winter this bad.

We are definitely going to break the Toronto snow record and we already beat our 1988 record and we will break our 1938.

Wow, that's a whack of snow.
Hope it all goes straight into the Lake when it melts... 😯

You'll just have to do what other Ontarians are doing...move to BC's interior.
My back yard thermometer read 15 C yesterday afternoon.
Not a flake of snow left...just dog poop.

Barb

I can't imagine ... yikes! 10' snow drifts! I don't know how you do it? No homeless street people there I'd wager.
Cold here yesterday Barb ... 8 celcius (46f) and overcast.

Cheers, Barrie.

We're a tad cooler here today too, Barrie.
At 10 a.m. we're only at 5C ... sun peeking through clouds.
The cold-weather seeds are in the ground (lettuce, kale & spinach), even watered the rows yesterday. 8)
Barb