Well, I just read that Joe in Calif was going for a ride. Strangely, the temperature here this morning wasn't lots colder than San Jacinto CA considering it's 1500 miles south of here. However, darkling shadows loom on the horizon. Friday, near blizzard conditions are forcast and are supposed to carry on through Saturday and possibly 'til noon or so Sunday. Then the most dreaded of all meteorological phenomenon is to drop down upon us happless souls...the Arctic High. Lows all next week of -35* to -40* (makes no difference the scale ye use me maties, 'tis frigid cold). Now not to be the bearer of bad tidings, but brace yerselves all yis in the North Central USA and the Midwest northern lattitudes, we all know to where the Clipper slides when it leaves here. Sorry all, but get out the woolies and the toques, yer gonna need 'em.:eek:

Remind me budoka when I'm feeling excessively hopeful and elated to give you a call.

Thanks for the advance warning. I'll just stay inside, turn up the heat and dream of the warm spring days to come..(I hope)...

budoka reading the post reminds me of when i was an otr driver. spent a lot of time in st. larent, montreal, and becancour ( i think i got the last on right ). there would be three to five of us in our trucks and this time of year it would be so cold at night that we would sleep for two to two and a half hours. by then even with the trucks on fast idle there was no heat so we would set our alarms and make sure everyone was awake then drive up and back on the 401 to get the trucks warmed up. toranto seemed sooo warm after three or four days in st. larent

Thanks for the heads up. We will be riding some back roads into the Delta here on Saturday before the weather turns wintery. Sunday they are predicting some snow for central and northern Mississippi.

I was starting to feel sorry for myself, it is supposed to drop down to 20%F the first of next week. Sounds kind of warmish now.:confused:
Too wet to ride.
From the Northwest Corner
Ron

The weatherman's forecast of snow was a bust. All we got was a little freezing rain and sleet. The roads look fine this morning but all the offices are closed until noon. North of us about thirty or forty miles did get snow. The low went far enough north that we didn't get any of the white stuff.

Most of the province got hit hard with snow onthe weekend. Edmonton is half crippled by it right now, school busses not running, streets are chaos, nasty stuff. Highways have been closed due to conditions being so poor for driving. They've moderated the temps for this week now, only -30 for lows. Whoopie ding.

To all our friends in the Carolina's..... Welcome to Pennsylvania Winter Weather. Enjoy the shoveling...

Looks like we're finally going to break out of this weather. Only zero today (clap hands and do the happy dance). We had lots more snow on the weekend, but... We ran a promotion at the dealership from Nov 1 through Dec 31. If you bought a snowmobile in that time and it snowed at CYEG from midnight to midnight of Jan 15 a total of 6" (15.2 cm) you got your new sled paid for, or another of the same value for free. Forecast was great, snowed constantly most of the weekend, and got a total of 4.4cm (1.73") at Edmonton Intl. Colder than a witches er, elbow, crappy roads and driving coditions, and no free sleds for anyone (yours truly included in that). Oh well, that's why I was blessed with these broad shoulders. Rotten thing is, from Friday to Monday we ended up with over 10" total. In the imortal words of Maxwell Smart: "missed 'er by that much"