Showing posts with label winter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label winter. Show all posts
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Looking north, out over False Creek, at downtown Vancouver.[/caption]
Yesterday was brilliant but today has things going for it too.
Sure it's cold, but it has a nice personality -- everyone says that -- and from certain angles, and in the right sort of light, it's quite attractive.
And it's almost over. Click the image to enlarge it.
Looking north, out over False Creek, at downtown Vancouver.[/caption]Yesterday was brilliant but today has things going for it too.
Sure it's cold, but it has a nice personality -- everyone says that -- and from certain angles, and in the right sort of light, it's quite attractive.
And it's almost over. Click the image to enlarge it.
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Still crispy on the ground but very nearly raining. The orange is my trailer.[/caption]
After it snowed yesterday morning in Vancouver, temperatures hovered at or above zero most of the day. This allowed a thin blanket of snow to cling to the sidewalks, side streets, and back alleys of Fairview. At about 8 p.m. it even resumed snowing lightly -- I was at Cambie, heading west. In the half hour it took me to meandered my way slowly to Granville Street the temperature ticked up ever-so-slightly; the light snow became sleet, and the snow on the ground began to recede. The temperature continued to see-saw all evening.
Still crispy on the ground but very nearly raining. The orange is my trailer.[/caption]After it snowed yesterday morning in Vancouver, temperatures hovered at or above zero most of the day. This allowed a thin blanket of snow to cling to the sidewalks, side streets, and back alleys of Fairview. At about 8 p.m. it even resumed snowing lightly -- I was at Cambie, heading west. In the half hour it took me to meandered my way slowly to Granville Street the temperature ticked up ever-so-slightly; the light snow became sleet, and the snow on the ground began to recede. The temperature continued to see-saw all evening.
One evening this week, I saw a city sanding dump truck rushing Eastward along West Broadway Avenue; it was the really big kind with the snow plow on the front -- Eeeeeeeek!
News the next day that the first snow of the year fell at the nearby Whistler Blackcomb ski resort, quite a bit earlier than usual. No one cares to guess if we're in for a mild or severe winter. Regardless of the snowy, or warm, extremes we might have, the "median" Vancouver winter can be seen in the very moving image above, across the street from the bottle depot at Ontario Street, and 7th Avenue. The rain was light to start with, so as to acclimatize a city still basking in memories of dry, sunny, summer days. By the time I was in the bottle depot, it was hitting it's stride. I heard a kind of woosh at one point, and turned to look out the loading bay-size entrance, and the rain had suddenly throttled-up to waterfall-mode; it didn't last, by the time I took the video above, it was just a bit above average. Soon though, when it starts, it won't stop for days, and days.
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