Now you have to understand a bit of geology to understand this post. Driving the highway west of Meaford you slowly rise up the Algonquin shoreline of the last ice age. After that until you drop down over the rocks of the escarpment on this side of Owen Sound you are up on top of the escarpment. That's enough to make a slight difference in temperature. As a result that part of the drive may have snow while both in Meaford and in Owen Sound there is none.
Driving to Owen Sound for physio the other day, we saw the evidence of this as a gentle snowfall covered all the trees for the stretch of the drive above the escarpment. Later on in the winter the difference will be a lot more obvious. For now, enjoy these early winter photos.
The bluish cast is because they were all taken through the windshield. It all disappeared of course within hours, and the following day it rose to a high of 13°C. Now, with a forecast of -7 and snowsqualls, it has started snowing outside my window two days later.
Beautiful, the road was clear, the sky that gorgeous pale turquoise, but more to come?? Just as well you had that wonderful trip out.
ReplyDeleteThat's something I was used to growing up in the shadow of the Escarpment.
ReplyDeleteThese first snowfalls of the year are a bit of a shock to the system. May as well grin and bear it.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed learning about this meteorological phenomenon. It sure made for some pretty pictures.
ReplyDeleteThe light dusting is so pretty - like it was all dusted with icing sugar! :)
ReplyDeleteLooks nice, we too had snow in the high country but it's gone now.
ReplyDeleteLovely shots but I am not looking forward to it!
ReplyDeleteI often walk through the grounds of Spadina House. They have a beautiful assortment of tree specimens and a large garden that the volunteers from the horticultural society maintain.
We experience that weather anomaly where I live too. Driving south from Pembroke, we keep rising. The land rises all the way into Algonquin Park. Where my house is, we are in a wee valley surrounded by high hills. This little Valley has it's own microclimate. We will have colder weather, snow that lasts longer and pockets of fog. (In ancient time, the little creek just past my lane was a raging river that carved our valley.)
ReplyDeleteWinter wouldn't drive me away so easily if the roads and sidewalks remained clear.
ReplyDeleteI like to see winter come in a gentle way. We had a windstorm on Tues. Not nice.
ReplyDeleteSome days are just prettier than others and winter can do that with practically a snap of the fingers.
ReplyDeleteLooks like winter is upon us.
ReplyDeleteWhat you say is very true…..being on top of the escarpment, we always get more snow than Owen Sound. Our temperatures are always 1 or 2 degrees cooler here all year long.
ReplyDeleteSome fine pictures, though I'm happy to say I haven't seen any snow so far this winter. There is a sprinkling forecast for next week but such warnings don't usually materialise. There's a very low escarpment just south of here, just a little more than fifty feet higher, but it's sometimes enough to be the difference between snow and no snow.
ReplyDeleteAs long as the highways are clear and the city gets out with the sanding trucks I don't mind snow. But when it dumps as it did to us this week with a blizzard blowing around, I'm not a happy camper.
ReplyDeleteIt does, however, make pretty pictures.
We've had one fall, I guess on the same day. It wasn't photo-worthy, or at least I wasn't up to the challenge.
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