Albert Peres wrote: http://www.3129.ca/OutsideRightNow 4:00 am. Thursday, 28 Feb 2013. > Its snowing again in Toronto. This composite shot, taken moments ago, is a > view > of the street taken from tripod just inside front window. Its 4:00 am but > heavily overcast. There is lots of light bouncing around from the street and > city lights. Toronto is never dark when there is fresh snow on the ground. > The > snowplows will do their rounds at about 5:00 am. Likely will have to remove a > 1 > or 2-foot snow drift before moving the cars out of the driveway. Accumulated > drifts this year are about 4-5 feet high. Far less than most of Canada. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Great picture, Albert! 1) For the folks who have not experienced it, after it snows in Toronto, the middle of the night can be as bright as shown in the picture. 2) The 4 ft snow banks in the picture are as hard as concrete. If your car hits one, the snow bank will remain intact but your car will have several thousand dollars worth of damage. 3) The hospitals in Toronto operate on one guiding statistic after every snow storm. For every inch of snow over 8 inches, each hospital in the area prepares to receive one heart attack patient the following morning. For example, if 12 inches of snow falls overnight, at least 4 people will be brought to each hospital with heart problems triggered by trying to shovel snow. 4) The temperature on the night this picture was taken was minus one degree to zero degrees centigrade. Had the temperature been a degree or two higher, all the precipitation would have fallen as rain. Mervyn
