"Non-winter"

Photograph by: Steve Wertman, Abbotsford Times

There has been a lot of talk about how mild the Canadian winter is this year.  People on the street, on the train, on the radio are all taking about it.  It got to plus 5 last night.  All these plus temperatures means not a lot of snow and what snow is left is melting.  This is from www.canada.com (my go to for Canadian news and info).

"We are the second coldest country in the world and the snowiest country in the world, but what we've really seen is a total lack of winter everywhere," climatologist David Phillips said.

"It's been like a missing-in-action winter and we're seeing that both in Canada and the United States," said Phillips, Environment Canada's senior climatologist.

Apparently the snow season hasn't started and non refrigerated ice rinks are melting!!!  Of course the next part of this conversation is about climate change and whether this is a result of global warming or just an unusual weather event.  I guess this remains to be seen...

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PS - Who'd be a third child?!  This poor little guy has to sleep on the go and luckily he seems happy to go with it.  I  couldn't imagine Action Boy falling asleep in the car, being carried in and napping on the floor for an extra hour!  Amazing!