David Phillips
David Phillips
arrived lost norway
He arrived in Norway having not lost a pound,
lose storm
I don't want to go through that again. If another big storm comes, I am going to lose everything again.
absolutely generally less seen snow warmer
Grandparents will tell you that winters aren't what they used to be and they're absolutely right about that. Winters have been generally getting warmer and warmer and with generally less snow than what we have seen in the past.
best canada character guess january none saying voting whether white winter
It's our best guess at what we think the character and personality of the winter in Canada will be like. It's not saying whether it's going to be a white Christmas, or whether there's going to be a January thaw, or what voting day will be like weather-wise. It's none of that.
balance colder shows weather
That just shows you that sometimes weather does balance off. Sometimes you get milder winters here and colder winters there.
beginning bite coast deep finally found looking map misery parties search sent weather wild winter
It is wild out there -- there's a lot of misery on the weather map from coast to coast to coast. We'd sent out search parties looking for winter and we finally found it, and it's here, and it's beginning to bite us deep and hard.
snow sure unlike
It's not the coldest place, but it has a sure cold. And unlike the coldest places, it also has a sure snow cover.
air answer arctic cold easy eurasia fact north pacific source winter
The easy answer is the fact that the source of cold air this winter tended to be more in Eurasia and not North America. So what we got was more Pacific air and not Arctic air.
bit dramatic point weather
All of this is a bit of a yawner from a weather point of view. It's dramatic because it's so sudden.
downright last
The last two days, it has been downright miserable.
four heat lakes land months normal rivers stored warmer
(The last) four months have been warmer than normal so there's a lot of stored heat in the lakes and the rivers and the land and the soil.
below higher less normal
It could be (you have) below normal precipitation but your snowfall is higher because you have less rainfall.
above almost since start winter
We're almost like the no-cold-weather zone. Almost every day but one since the start of winter has been above normal.
almost putting saying simple
I think it's as simple as saying we've been doing this for almost 35 years. We've been putting off things that we wanted to do.