Snowfall is hard to accurately predict and the potential resulting mess is also an educated guess.
Yes, it’s cold. Yes, we like to brag about it.
Snowfall is hard to accurately predict and the potential resulting mess is also an educated guess.
The red carpet is rolled out for A-list celebrities in other parts of the world. In Canada, we use grey mats to deal with a special kind of party crasher—snow.
It wasn’t a storm or a tornado but a rare “derecho”. Never underestimate weather conditions in Canada, a land of extreme weather.
Everything looks different and it’s going to be like this for the next few months. I took these pictures last night, on my way to the supermarket. See what I’m talking about?
COVID-19 is disrupting everything but it has yet to infect and affect weather patterns—that would be the other threat, global warming, but I can only deal with one major disaster at the time.
When a serious snowstorm was forecast last Monday night, I geared up for the fight—that’s what winter is, a long battle with the elements.
Someone finally turned the heat on this weekend. It was lovely, warm, hot, amazing and other adjectives used and reused by everyone here. And this is what happens when it suddenly gets hotter in...
It rained all day on Friday. It snowed on Saturday. As I’m typing this tonight, on May 1, there’s a freezing rain warning in effect.
All week long, I've been taking photos of a few typical December scenes around Ottawa with my cellphone. This is what the city looks like right now.
Every year, for four to six months, life in Canada is full of big and small winter struggles. Here are ten situations you’re probably familiar with if you've ever considered using the car trunk as a...
Some people can handle cold weather, some people can’t. Clearly, I can’t. I don’t even like ice in my drinks.
Turned out we weren’t hit by two tornadoes but six.
I reached over to grab my phone, plugged to the charger because surely, the power must have been restored at one point during the night.
There are events you know you will recall vividly years later—what you were doing, where you were, how you dealt with the situation.
Remember when I explained you didn’t want to get caught in an ice storm? Well, you probably don’t want to get caught in the summer version of these ice storms either—Ottawa’s legendary downpours.
Last weekend’s ice storm was no joke. It scared me. Freezing rain creates an amazing scenery. Freezing rain causes accidents and damages. Lovely, but deadly.
We deal with snow much like parents deal with a 12-month old eating spaghetti and tomato sauce by himself—amazed by the fact something mundane can create such a giant mess.
Tropical storm Harvey made a landing in Ottawa yesterday, right before Labour Day.
At first, rain was good news. Non-frozen water falling from the sky meant temperatures were going up and we were transitioning into spring.
It's only later in the evening that I learned this piece of trivia: that Thursday, temperatures on Mars had been warmer than in Ottawa.
The entire table of respectable federal government employees started sharing winter misery stories punctuated by unbleeped expletives. This blew my mind.
