Saturday, December 20, 2008

George was quite a storm, Ivan brings same stuff, different presentation





The storm after storm pattern continues as yet another winter storm is on its way, and quite possibly another one pre-Christmas.

Temperatures today will be quite cold, wind chill values almost reached -30 earlier in the morning today and afternoon wont be warming up too much. Followed by another day of strong wind and blizzard like conditions, welcome to the real Canadian winter Toronto!

We could get some lake effect throughout today but I don't see any mmajor accumulations, some places along the Horseshoe could get 5cm.

Environment Canada Just issued the second winter storm watch in 3 days, which I find quite exciting and funny at the same time. Looks like we wont get a break! Did I mention not getting a break? After this storm passed, yet another one will be on the developing stages!

Now lets break down the exact dynamics of Ivan.

We should see snow starting in the evening for Southern Ontario by evening and this thing wont go away until tomorrow Evening. A very strong round of lake effect follows behind. We may not see as heavy of snow rate like the last one, but wind will be once again very strong with this system, perhaps even stronger than the last one. Snow ratio will also be very high with this system, causing more snow than the models show. Up to 25 cm is quite possible in Toronto.

Once this thing moves to Southeastern Ontario and Southern Quebec, it will strengthen rapidly and could bring 30+ cm to places like Montreal and especially eastern townships. Eastern US is in the same bought ares in Main could get alot of snow!

Today looks like the last day you want to do Christmas shopping in and please get ready for yet another round of wintery weather!

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