Friday, November 18, 2022

Snow Squalls!

The visit to the plant nursery in Barrie will have to wait while I tell you about the snow squalls we are getting today.  You know winter is really here once we are getting serious snow squalls.  It is 8-10 inches deep now, more in places, with a forecast of up to two feet of snow over the weekend.

If you are not familiar with lake-effect snow, this is what it looks like on the radar (a photo of the computer screen, so the quality is pretty bad, but you get the idea).  Bands of snow develop over the open water of the Great Lakes, picking up lots of moisture, and then dumping sometimes huge amounts of snow once the moisture-laden winds hit land.  So the lake-effect snow occurs on the east side of Lake Huron and Georgian Bay, and the east ends of Lakes Erie and Ontario.  On this image you can see it hitting just south of Buffalo, a patch east of Lake Huron, and a meandering band across Georgian Bay, hitting us as well as Owen Sound.

This is what the view out back looked like this morning, and there is probably twice as much snow now.  But the window is covered with melting snow, so I cannot get any up-to-date pictures out there.

There was 10" of snow on top of the planters; there is probably 16" now.

The new circular planters Mrs. F.G. put in this year are accumulating snow because of the rabbit-proof fencing she put around each one.

Our crane has buried his/her head in the snow, and become an Ostrich.

A very large pot has become a mushroom.

This snow is heavy and wet enough that it is sticking to the trees - and is very hard to shovel.  The temperature is hovering around 0°C.

This is the view across the street a short time ago.  When snow is coming down this heavily it accumulates very fast, and visibility when driving becomes almost nil.  We will see what the weekend brings; we may be on our own.  We are certainly not going anywhere!




17 comments:

  1. And I always thought that living where snow would fall would be so wonderful.I can see the prettiness and the disadvantages. Your crane, head covered, and if this lasts it may be a long time before he surfaces again.And we had torrential rain that overflowed from all spoutings, the driveway is clean again.

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  2. It looks pretty but it is no fun when it gets that deep unless you are a kid or a dog. I hope that it stops soon for you.

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  3. I think you folks definitely have more snow up there now than we do down here. Like you, living right next to these large bodies of water certainly does make us more susceptible to snow laden lake streamers.

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  4. That's a lot of snow! Your white stuff looks so pretty if you don't need to get out in it. :-)

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  5. That is a heck of a lot of snow at one time! I complain when we get two or three inches. I do hope at least some of it melts by the weekend.

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  6. It is sure winter now!!! Beautiful photos.

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  7. Beautiful pictures but I don't envy you at all. I hope you don't get totally snowed in.

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  8. Wowzer! You got dumped upon by Father Winter himself! (I just made that up.) I do hope you are safe and don't have to go out for a while. Don't get cabin fever!

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  9. Heavy wet snow may be pretty but it's maddening to shovel.

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  10. We have had snow too, but not as much as initially seemed to be in the forecast, and certainly not the dump that Buffalo is having to endure. There is more on the way, however, so I guess I should start to flex my shovelling muscles.

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  11. Seems early this year for the heavy wet kind of snow.

    Deb

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  12. I wondered if you were getting dumped on when I saw the weather this morning! Good thing you can stay home.

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  13. oooooh it is so lovely!! we were suppose to get a few snow squalls yesterday but we did not get it!! (insert sad face)!! i hope you have plenty of yummy food and no where you HAVE to go!!

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  14. Nothing but a few flurries down here, but we're quite a way from the Great Lakes. The three inches we had earlier is almost all gone.

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  15. It is strange for snow on the east coast that we don’t get. Thankfully. Cozy inside looking out though, FG.

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  16. We have snow, but we are located well enough from the lakes that we didn’t get much accumulation.

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  17. I know it can build up in your part of the province.

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