Plus 3 on friday? Will be putting my swimtrunks on that day.

DPJ
Must be that global warming!

SNOW

Plus 3? Could happen, but then again in my experience with prince george winters when a cold spell moves in, it usually hangs in there for a week or two, like it or not. I'll take plus 3, but I bet the forecast will be revised and we won't see anything close to that. Just sayin. Hope I'm wrong.

Yup, I agree Junco. Friday is a long ways away and we all know that in PG that these cold snaps do last. I hope we're both wrong, but I'm not counting on it :-)

My thermometer is reading -36.6 and has not budged all morning. My dogs have perfected the 8 second pee and dash for the door.

Hawaii anyone?

lol...bring your dogs over here Junco to teach mine. My germ. shep. I have to convince to come back in. He's almost 14 and hoping he's not losing his mind along with his hips...brrr. Our terrier I have to carry out or his paws freeze after a few min. of him trying to decide which snowflake is the best one to pee on. Then he cries so loud that I'm sure my neighbors think I'm kicking him to hurry up. Then I have to hold his paws in my hands once inside while breathing in them. With excitement he tears around the house...it's quite the performance.
Hawaii sounds great Batman. I'll dream about it tonight! It's cheaper. :)

Lol, I don't know if you would want my germ. shep to teach your dogs what he did this morning. He is normally so fastidious, and off in the bush, but this morning when he did his 8 sec pee it was on the side of our garage, which was a first. I guess it really is too cold to venture too far. Your terrier and his antics sound pretty cute.

My thermometer is still reading -36.6,
I think the remote sensor that is out in the yard must have froze up...or maybe dog peed on it, lol.

Not a record low, yes proof of globull warming.

Don't worry folks, if the forecast is correct we'll be getting right back to the same type of winter weather that PG had when I grew up here as a kid. You know, +3 and rain on Dec 18th and highs of barely below zero right up to Christmas and New Years. Oh and don't forget the piles of snow in the front yard that are big enough that your kids can jump off of the roof for fun and not hurt themselves.

Yup, our recent winters are perfectly consistent with what I recall from my childhood memories . . . LOL.

You're aging yourself NMG, 24 yrs in PG and no roof jumpin'.

I was one of those kids jumping off the roof on the Hart! The mounds at the end of the driveway were every parents nightmare and every childs dream. Was that in '83?

Glad to see Edmonton is warming up as well!

Yeah I think the roof diving would've been early 80's. Throughout my youth, I recall that, huge snow forts in the back yards, snow banks high enough on the roads that when you played road hockey you would body check each other into them, snow balling cars on Halloween (yes there was some mischief in those days), weeks upon weeks of nothing warmer than -20 (and many extended periods of -30 and colder), etc.

In short, I think it's insane for anyone who has lived in PG for any period of time to honestly believe that our winters have not become noticeably more mild in recent times. I'm not going to presume that I know exactly what has caused them to change, but to suggest that they haven't is goofy.

We used to believe that surviving our "harsh winters" was like earning a badge of honour. The PG winters of today (except for a handful of days a year) are simply wonderful compared to what we used to get. We should use it in an add campaign. Something like "come to PG where the winters, despite what you've heard, are really no different that most anywhere else in Canada".

I remember the big snow year in the early 80's where the snow banks were as high as the eves drops on the house, but I also remember years where one could walk down at Cottenwood park in early January with no snow on the trails or along the river bed. Sometimes we get winter early and sometimes we get it later in the year, and sometime it snows lots when its cold and other times it rains when its warm, but by and large we still get a good winter for some of the time. Our proximity to the coast makes them unpredictable from year to year IMO.

All I know is I froze my whole body the last couple of days, and I'm very glad it didn't snow enough to have to put chains on for the hills like I seen some other poor unfortunate souls out there having to do.