So this is winter in Thunder Bay!?
Here it is, the latter part of January, and the water is running in the streets once again. It's true there is plenty of snow—I expected that—but the temperatures are much higher than I was anticipating. I now understand the comments I hear from acquaintances here... "I wish it would just stay below minus ten!" They use so much salt here that the streets seem always to be slushy—I've never used my windshield washer so much! I shudder to think of what is happening to the exposed metal on my vehicles!
We've actually had a couple of occasions when it dropped below minus twenty (about -4 for you Fahrenheit aficionados!), but that is only the start of cold for many Canadians! Usually it's in the zero to minus five for daytime highs, and that is always enough to produce melting in our salt-inoculated streets.
Today, it's plus seven, and the water is running! What a way to run a winter!
Here it is, the latter part of January, and the water is running in the streets once again. It's true there is plenty of snow—I expected that—but the temperatures are much higher than I was anticipating. I now understand the comments I hear from acquaintances here... "I wish it would just stay below minus ten!" They use so much salt here that the streets seem always to be slushy—I've never used my windshield washer so much! I shudder to think of what is happening to the exposed metal on my vehicles!
We've actually had a couple of occasions when it dropped below minus twenty (about -4 for you Fahrenheit aficionados!), but that is only the start of cold for many Canadians! Usually it's in the zero to minus five for daytime highs, and that is always enough to produce melting in our salt-inoculated streets.
Today, it's plus seven, and the water is running! What a way to run a winter!
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