Monday morning: all about the weather
Cold temperatures and snow continue, messing with the Monday commute and cancelling flights.
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jeather 12:21 on 2026-01-26 Permalink
Honestly, not that much snow hit us overnight — I think it tracked south after it walloped Toronto. I know more is coming today, but I don’t think we’re getting the threated 20 cm. Traffic was terrible, though.
Kate 15:33 on 2026-01-26 Permalink
The official Canada forecasts tend to overstate the predicted impact of any weather. If they say 15 to 20 cm and we get 10, we’re happier than if they say 10 and we get 25. Or, in summer, if they say sunny, and we go for a picnic and get rained on, we complain. It’s better if they say rain, and we stay home and it remains sunny. It’s a very cautious, Canadian approach to weather info.
Tee Owe 17:16 on 2026-01-26 Permalink
For what it’s worth, Danish forecasters do the same – it goes back to a lawsuit many years ago ‘you didn’t tell us this would happen’ – we’re having a ‘snowstorm’ at the moment, 1 mm snow – looks nice
Tee Owe 17:17 on 2026-01-26 Permalink
to be fair, maybe 1 cm
Tim S. 18:34 on 2026-01-26 Permalink
I find Environment Canada very accurate for temperature and very cagey about precipitation amounts. The Weather Network is willing to give precipitation forecasts, which from about 48 hours out I find usually accurate enough.
jeather 20:50 on 2026-01-26 Permalink
The guy who does youtube forecasts, Frankie, is usually pretty accurate and he also called for a lot of snow. Ottawa got a lot; it’s unusual that it missed us.
CE 23:18 on 2026-01-26 Permalink
Get your Pepsi, get your Chinese food!
MarcG 11:29 on 2026-01-27 Permalink
Does Frankie ever mention the east coast phenomenon of Storm chips?
CE 13:08 on 2026-01-27 Permalink
Any east coaster who’s trekked to the store to buy the requisite five cases of Pepsi and five cases of Coke is definitely going to pick up a bag or two of chips.