Snow Trends in Toronto

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Snow Trends in Toronto

#1 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Fri Dec 26, 2008 9:10 am

Long ago (2006), in the bad old days before IPCC AR4, Toronto got its lowest snowfall in a century. Lake level declines were sure to follow. Would water supplies for lattes be threatened? Even the unthinkable now seemed possible and even likely. Then....

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Re: Snow Trends in Toronto

#2 Post by Iben Browning » Fri Dec 26, 2008 9:30 am

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:Image

That could be Toronto's seismograph in the near future....

I'm just warning you........
Disaster strikes December 3, 1990! You have been warned!

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Re: Snow Trends in Toronto

#3 Post by etaoin22 » Fri Dec 26, 2008 11:54 am

If a windbag from the southeast blows in, major lake effect snow off Ontario is sure to occur. Aside from Al Gore, such wind directions might well occur if a low pressure system centred over a Wal-Mart in Southern Illinois and didn't move.

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Re: Snow Trends in Toronto

#4 Post by Captain Planet » Fri Dec 26, 2008 12:00 pm

Al Gore knows nothing!!!!!!

Everybody knows that when the powers of water and wind combine off the Great Lakes you get snow courtesy of CAPTAAAAAAIN PLANET!
By your incredibly politically correct powers combined, I AM CAPTAIN PLANET!!!!

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Re: Snow Trends in Toronto

#5 Post by Al Gore » Fri Dec 26, 2008 12:37 pm

Captain Planet wrote:Al Gore knows nothing!!!!!!

Everybody knows that when the powers of water and wind combine off the Great Lakes you get snow courtesy of CAPTAAAAAAIN PLANET!

I'm blaming Jim Cantore. He must've visited Toronto after I did....

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