Pray tell, why are you posting a winter weather forecast dated from Nov. 30
on March 2nd?


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Roger Shoaf

About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then
they come up with this striped stuff.


"James" wrote in message
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Blast from the past?
Last Updated: Friday, November 30, 2007 | 9:55 PM ET
CBC News
Not since the grunge era and Brian Mulroney's days as prime minister has
Canada
experienced a winter quite as bitter as the one expected to creep in this
December,
Environment Canada forecasted on Friday.


Alex Pawsey shields herself from the elements with an umbrella while
crossing St.
George's Square in Guelph, Ont. on Thursday, March 1, 2007.
(Canadian Press/ Guelph Mercury/ Darren Calabrese)
In its first winter outlook of the year, the agency predicts that until
February,
climates across most of the country will be the coldest in 15 years, with
the
exception of a small pocket in southern Ontario.

Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips said the trend in
recent years
of uncharacteristically warm, short winters will be wiped out by a chilly
reminder of
what a real Canadian winter feels like.

Although it won't necessarily be "the winter from hell or face-numbing
wind chills
every time," Phillips said temperature-wise, "we could have conditions
that would be
perhaps three-quarters or a degree colder than normal."

Colder air this year is expected to drive down temperatures.

"We think that with La Nina — which encourages more Canadian air, more
Siberian air,
whatever you want to call it, Alaskan air — it tends to be more of that
flow," he
said, referring to the phenomenon of lower-than-normal temperatures in the
Pacific Ocean.

The cooler climate will likely also blanket some cities with snow after
years without
a white Christmas, he said.

Last year, a number of traditionally cold and snow-covered cities such
as Quebec
City, Ottawa and Timmins, Ont., had their first green Christmas in
decades.

There are several up-sides to the mercury dipping, Phillips said. Winter
sports
enthusiasts might embrace the cooler winter, as would businesses that rely
on the snow.

"I always think it's good for the economy when weather is behaving like it
should,
when winters are cold and summers are hot," he said, adding more people
will likely
book holidays to escape the harsh weather.