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Currently at Toronto Pearson: 1. High today: 5.
Sometime tonight, the temperature may drop below the normal daily high (which for today and tomorrow would be 0) for the first time since Saturday morning. Surprisingly, glancing over the Accuweather records, Sunday through today appear to have been the first days since June 20 that the lows have failed to drop below the normal highs. It looks like there were about thirty-nine days from January to June in which that happened. It's hard to tell from Accuweather's records how many days there have been on the flip side, because their normal lows are obviously inaccurate, but it looks like there have probably been three days this year when the high failed to reach the normal low: Jan. 3, Nov. 4, and Nov. 5. (Any time now, EC is going to come out with its new set of normals, based on records from 1981 to 2010, replacing the ones from 1971 to 2000. It'll be interesting to see--I guess a lot of people are anxious to see--how much that will move the yardsticks. The last revision knocked the annual average at Pearson up by 0.3 degrees. The next one will presumably knock it up quite a bit more; the '70s was a cold decade, and the '80s was when it started getting hot around here.)
In the interests of not wanting to blow my head off, and of taking advantage of what might be the last patches of early morning clear sky I might be able to get to for who knows how long, I decided I'd better walk back down to the lake this morning. Similar weather conditions to last Wednesday's, but this time, by the time I got to the lake, the sheet of clouds had advanced far enough that I was apparently not going to be able to see Venus and Mercury at the same time:
As I discovered later, though, while I in fact could not see Venus and Mercury at the same time, my camera could:
That'll be Mercury down in the dusky mist, a third of the way in from the left. By the time Mercury made it above the mist, too much cloud had closed in to see it consistently clearly. I was hoping to see Antares beside it--that's Scorpio, now, that Venus and Mercury have dropped into; soon Mercury will drop down into the sun, to be visible again on the other side in February--but no such luck.
Here's Venus popped out the top:
I keep feeling like winter ought to be over already, and it hasn't even started. But it is more than a third of the way around to opening up the cottage again.
Sometime tonight, the temperature may drop below the normal daily high (which for today and tomorrow would be 0) for the first time since Saturday morning. Surprisingly, glancing over the Accuweather records, Sunday through today appear to have been the first days since June 20 that the lows have failed to drop below the normal highs. It looks like there were about thirty-nine days from January to June in which that happened. It's hard to tell from Accuweather's records how many days there have been on the flip side, because their normal lows are obviously inaccurate, but it looks like there have probably been three days this year when the high failed to reach the normal low: Jan. 3, Nov. 4, and Nov. 5. (Any time now, EC is going to come out with its new set of normals, based on records from 1981 to 2010, replacing the ones from 1971 to 2000. It'll be interesting to see--I guess a lot of people are anxious to see--how much that will move the yardsticks. The last revision knocked the annual average at Pearson up by 0.3 degrees. The next one will presumably knock it up quite a bit more; the '70s was a cold decade, and the '80s was when it started getting hot around here.)
In the interests of not wanting to blow my head off, and of taking advantage of what might be the last patches of early morning clear sky I might be able to get to for who knows how long, I decided I'd better walk back down to the lake this morning. Similar weather conditions to last Wednesday's, but this time, by the time I got to the lake, the sheet of clouds had advanced far enough that I was apparently not going to be able to see Venus and Mercury at the same time:
As I discovered later, though, while I in fact could not see Venus and Mercury at the same time, my camera could:
That'll be Mercury down in the dusky mist, a third of the way in from the left. By the time Mercury made it above the mist, too much cloud had closed in to see it consistently clearly. I was hoping to see Antares beside it--that's Scorpio, now, that Venus and Mercury have dropped into; soon Mercury will drop down into the sun, to be visible again on the other side in February--but no such luck.
Here's Venus popped out the top:
I keep feeling like winter ought to be over already, and it hasn't even started. But it is more than a third of the way around to opening up the cottage again.
