What's the weather like in...?

[catty_big]

This year has been the coldest Winter that I can remember. And I'm hurtling towards 48! Even my Mum, who remembers both '47 and '63 (this is the UK, but I imagine it was as bad in other Northern Hemisphere countries), says it's comparable to those years or worse. So far it's snowed FOUR times here, and, although the latest snowfall is now over in London (quite far South), I believe there's still snow on the ground in other parts of the UK. So what's it been like where you are?

[J.K.Mosher]

Here it's been steady cold and blowy.

Early opening to the Ice Road . . . fair number of days with Wind Chills of -40c or lower.
(I have been out in colder wind chills -63c was nasty, nasty, nasty . . . don't recommend it)

We've gotten the normal amount of snowfall for our region, though it all came in a couple of storms,
rather than spread out over a couple of months . . .

we'll have to see how it all bodes for flooding once things start to warm up . . .

[bender42]

It wasn't actually that bad on our side of the pond. (I live in Michigan, so we still got a ton, but the lake effect wasn't as bad this year.)

[Chainsaw Aardvark]

Its been kind of strange around me. We set a record for latest snowfall and longest interval between them this year. There was a bit of January where you couldn't see much snow, yet we're expecting a cold snap during the week. Its like all the weather shifted six weeks from where its supposed to be. Which was extra funny for one of my brothers, who had a part time job at a ski resort in Northern Wisconsin, that had no snow for the first few weeks of the season!

I have no complaints though. At least for the time being its kind of nice here, north of Chicago.

[Onix]

There's still snow on the ground here, not a lot. Actually this winter has been closer to the kind that we used to get when I was a youth.

Even 12 years ago we used to get winters where the snow would not melt until sometime in January. Then it would pile up again for a month. These recent years, it snows but it melts in between so there's no build up.

[vulpinoid]

In Sydney, Australia, we've just come off one of the hottest summers on record.

Now that Summer has passed, the weather's generally beautiful...but there has been this strange smog hanging over the city for the past couple of days. Thick in the morning, gradually burning off during the heat of the day but never really going away.

[madunkieg]

Not here. In Toronto we had an on/off type of winter. It was cool when it was cold, and it was warm when it was warm. Unseasonably so. Yes, I know there's a cycle of melts that occurs, but that's supposed to happen through the autumn and spring, not through the middle of winter. We're definitely seeing some effects of climate change here.

Someone reminded me that the winter used to feature snowbanks higher than the cars. Well, we got that this year, for about a week. Then it all melted. Arrrgh.

[Onix]

[catty_big]

Here in the UK we tend to forget that in countries like Canada and Russia such snowiness as we've been experiencing is rather more common. Nevertheless I think it's been an unusual Winter. @Vulpinoid, I suppose we'll have to wait a few months for Winter to kick in to see if the climate's out of kilter where you are too.

[aquaprin90]

Its sunny weather here in Delhi, India., not too cold and not too hot...