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Old 03-03-12, 06:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Machka
Things are definitely greener today. We had 146 mm of rain in 36 hours, until about midnight last night. And today the grass is growing like mad.
We're up over 230 mm of rain in the past 5 days with the monsoons. The backyard is a jungle.
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Originally Posted by Machka
We're up over 230 mm of rain in the past 5 days with the monsoons. The backyard is a jungle.
Yikes! Thats over 40mm per day! Is your house on pontoons? or at least a hill?
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Spent most of the past few days just shovelling snow! Don't care what the official records say - the height of the snowbanks say we got more snow in the past week than we got throughout the rest of the winter!
Yep, just skied knee deep powder snow over the weekend. snowbanks are currently the highest they've been this winter.

cute posts from australia are not really relevant to the 'winter cycling' forum IMO.
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There were tornadoes two days ago. There a chance of severe storms again today. My grass is looking scruffy. I may need to get the mower out soon.
Gotta love weather. Friday was 75F and severe storms. I woke up yesterday to 4" of snow.
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Originally Posted by Bekologist
Yep, just skied knee deep powder snow over the weekend. snowbanks are currently the highest they've been this winter.

cute posts from australia are not really relevant to the 'winter cycling' forum IMO.
Actually I'm jealous on both counts! You cause you got to ski and Machka just cause she's in Australia! This week delivered a mixture of snow that turned to slush that turned to ice. And a repeat performance is in the forcast for the rest of the week.

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only the calendar indicates greener days ahead. We had a touch of snow this morning with temps below freezing.
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Originally Posted by Burton
Yikes! Thats over 40mm per day! Is your house on pontoons? or at least a hill?
There's a lot of flooding going on!! And the winter rains haven't even started yet. This was all monsoons.

But it's now autumn here now (as of March 1), and things have turned green and will only get greener throughout the winter ...

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OK The seige is officially over. Regardless of whatever fowl forcasts the weatherman has planned, Mother Nature has already spread the word to all the Canada Geese that its time! A HUGE cloud (too big to be a flock) passed overhead this afternoon.


But they seemed to be headed for Ottawa .... A organized protest in the capital against dissappearing wetlands perhaps???

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