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(CTV News)   After unseasonably mild winter, Eastern Canada to encounter "punch in the face" cold snap this week. Bonjour, vortex polaire   (ctvnews.ca) divider line
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996 clicks; posted to Main » on 31 Jan 2023 at 6:05 AM (7 weeks ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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Tr0mBoNe [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 6:14:16 AM  
yeah it's gonna be Zesty Mordant out there.. bundle up, buddies.
 
Tom Marvolo Bombadil
2023-01-31 6:16:29 AM  
Wake me up when it gets to "kick in the dick" cold.
 
Northern
2023-01-31 6:19:28 AM  
We're going to have two cold days, then temps back in the 40s and 50s here in the Boston area.  I am mentally preparing to be covered in ticks this year.
That also reminds me to reset the mouse traps this weekend.
 
Cythraul
2023-01-31 6:26:38 AM  
Meanwhile, in North Carolina, we have frogs waking up from hibernation and spring flowers sprouting from the ground.... in late January.
 
WickerNipple [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-31 6:32:59 AM  
It hasn't even been below freezing during most days this winter in Vermont.
 
starlost
2023-01-31 6:33:15 AM  

Cythraul: Meanwhile, in North Carolina, we have frogs waking up from hibernation and spring flowers sprouting from the ground.... in late January.


South carolina here. If i was anal about my lawn i'd be cutting it before the weekend. I won't be surprised if my king of the hill-ish neighbor almost lives on his mower this summer.
 
Cythraul
2023-01-31 6:33:48 AM  

WickerNipple: It hasn't even been below freezing during most days this winter in Vermont.


In Vermont?!
 
August11 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-31 6:41:00 AM  

Northern: We're going to have two cold days, then temps back in the 40s and 50s here in the Boston area.  I am mentally preparing to be covered in ticks this year.
That also reminds me to reset the mouse traps this weekend.


Field mice have been a problem on our property since 2001. Every winter, droves of them.

In 2020 during lockdown we were overrun by rats. Nothing at Home Depot worked. Then I was told that farmers have a whole higher level of weapons. I bought a bucket of farmer-grade poison chunks. Threw a few in basement corners and under crawl spaces. The rats disappeared, found three victims.

And incidentally have not seen a field mouse since. No more traps needed.

/CSB
 
PerpetualPeristalsis
2023-01-31 6:47:33 AM  
Inevitable moronic headline at the bottom of TFA:  "Does the polar vortex mean climate change isn't a problem?"
 
WickerNipple [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-31 6:48:57 AM  

Cythraul: WickerNipple: It hasn't even been below freezing during most days this winter in Vermont.

In Vermont?!


Daytime temps have been mid 30Fs to low 40Fs all winter.
 
CarnySaur [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 6:55:37 AM  
Vortex Polaire is the name of my Cabaret Voltaire cover band.
 
cynicalbastard
2023-01-31 7:01:18 AM  

Tom Marvolo Bombadil: Wake me up when it gets to "kick in the dick" cold.


That's going to be sometime Friday night. You prefer work boots or mukluks?
 
Nogale
2023-01-31 7:02:21 AM  

August11: Northern: We're going to have two cold days, then temps back in the 40s and 50s here in the Boston area.  I am mentally preparing to be covered in ticks this year.
That also reminds me to reset the mouse traps this weekend.

Field mice have been a problem on our property since 2001. Every winter, droves of them.

In 2020 during lockdown we were overrun by rats. Nothing at Home Depot worked. Then I was told that farmers have a whole higher level of weapons. I bought a bucket of farmer-grade poison chunks. Threw a few in basement corners and under crawl spaces. The rats disappeared, found three victims.

And incidentally have not seen a field mouse since. No more traps needed.

/CSB


Did you try a cat? Or cats?
 
towatchoverme
2023-01-31 7:03:18 AM  
And two days of seasonally appropriate weather is all anyone will remember and not weeks and weeks of green grass in January in Southern Ontario.

It's why we're sooooo boned.
 
August11 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-31 7:25:14 AM  

Nogale: August11: Northern: We're going to have two cold days, then temps back in the 40s and 50s here in the Boston area.  I am mentally preparing to be covered in ticks this year.
That also reminds me to reset the mouse traps this weekend.

Field mice have been a problem on our property since 2001. Every winter, droves of them.

In 2020 during lockdown we were overrun by rats. Nothing at Home Depot worked. Then I was told that farmers have a whole higher level of weapons. I bought a bucket of farmer-grade poison chunks. Threw a few in basement corners and under crawl spaces. The rats disappeared, found three victims.

And incidentally have not seen a field mouse since. No more traps needed.

/CSB

Did you try a cat? Or cats?


You hit a nerve. I love cats and dogs. A perfect household would have two of each. Wife is allergic to cat dander.

I grew up with cats. Yup. No mice.
 
MBooda [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 7:25:40 AM  
Bonjour, vortex polaire

Ah, the words of Jean-Paul Sartre.
 
LoneVVolf
2023-01-31 7:27:04 AM  
Sorry
 
Flab [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 7:43:25 AM  
It was a bit nippy at the bus stop, this morning.  But nothing preventing 10 year olds from doing their usual 10 year old stuff.
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Numberlady2
2023-01-31 7:47:55 AM  

MBooda: Bonjour, vortex polaire

Ah, the words of Jean-Paul Sartre.


Actually, Guy Lafleur
 
KRSESQ
2023-01-31 7:51:33 AM  
Anyone else notice the accompanying illustration depicted eastern Europe and asia and not Canada?
 
xanadian [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 7:55:30 AM  
We're long overdue, really.

/remembers the days when -20F or colder was common
 
oldfarthenry [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 8:19:32 AM  
It's -10C in the outskirts of Bumf**k Ontario this morning which is old skool average.
It's going to be -25C Thurs night - which is a tad nippy.
 
JammerJim [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 8:31:38 AM  
After several weeks of mild weather we're having a bit of freezing rain here in Austin. It's not that cold, really, just a bit below freezing, but we're not set up for this sort of thing. Crashes, icy overpasses, etc.
 
Deja vu all over again
2023-01-31 8:31:56 AM  

towatchoverme: And two days of seasonally appropriate weather is all anyone will remember and not weeks and weeks of green grass in January in Southern Ontario.

It's why we're sooooo boned.


And subby is an example of that. A couple of days of crappy winter weather is scary, no it's winter.
 
drtgb
2023-01-31 8:54:53 AM  
Tom Marvolo Bombadil: Wake me up when it gets to "kick in the dick" cold.

-11 in St.Paul, MN...  that's not too bad. Thursday however-

a shortwave trough will move across Canada and swing a trailing cold front through the region. This will give us a glancing blow of arctic air, with temperatures falling during the day on Thursday, and going below zero Thursday night into Friday morning. It's a good thing this isn't a direct hit, because the heart of this cold air has H850 temperatures less than -40 degrees across southeast Canada... But for us, based on the current forecast, expect just another round of wind chill advisories to be issued during this time frame as surface temperatures drop into the teens below zero again...

-40 is pretty rough.
 
dbirchall [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-31 9:36:16 AM  
Looks like New England is in for it, too.  Wind chills of -25 to -35 F on Friday night.

Ah well, not like I wanted to do anything that night anyway.
 
Johnny the Tackling Alzheimers Patient
2023-01-31 10:17:37 AM  
Meanwhile, in Vancouver ...

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OMG ... SHUT. IT. DOWN.
 
Tentacle
2023-01-31 10:29:48 AM  

Tom Marvolo Bombadil: Wake me up when it gets to "kick in the dick" cold.


Just go for a "polar bear" dip in your nearest pond?
 
toetag
2023-01-31 10:36:27 AM  
Supposed to be -28F Saturday here.  Which is about right for our low.  Almost the same week as last year when it was -36.9F.

/not a Canuck, but easterly.
 
frankb00th
2023-01-31 10:37:36 AM  

Nogale: August11: Northern: We're going to have two cold days, then temps back in the 40s and 50s here in the Boston area.  I am mentally preparing to be covered in ticks this year.
That also reminds me to reset the mouse traps this weekend.

Field mice have been a problem on our property since 2001. Every winter, droves of them.

In 2020 during lockdown we were overrun by rats. Nothing at Home Depot worked. Then I was told that farmers have a whole higher level of weapons. I bought a bucket of farmer-grade poison chunks. Threw a few in basement corners and under crawl spaces. The rats disappeared, found three victims.

And incidentally have not seen a field mouse since. No more traps needed.

/CSB

Did you try a cat? Or cats?


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F*ck cats. This is what you need for rats.
 
cnocnanrionnag [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 10:40:22 AM  
My recording thermometer on the shady north side of my house recorded -13C (+9F) as the coldest temperature so far since Oct 1.  On one night.

I'm in rural Eastern Ontario, halfway between Toronto and Ottawa and I can tell you that this is unprecedented warmth.  A couple of nights of -30C (-22F) isn't going to alter the overall average temperature very much...
 
good_2_go
2023-01-31 10:51:16 AM  
I'll believe it when Frankie MacDonald tells us about it.
 
emotion_lotion
2023-01-31 11:20:05 AM  
More like "A boot to the head".

/someone please get the reference
 
Jadedgrl
2023-01-31 11:35:42 AM  
Here in WNY we're dealing with a squirrel infestation in our attic. Those farkers should've been nested a long time ago. Instead because of the nice weather, they decided to shop around and appreciated our set up the most, I guess. Working with a trapping company- one down, ? to go.
 
Nogale
2023-01-31 12:20:50 PM  

August11: Nogale: August11: Northern: We're going to have two cold days, then temps back in the 40s and 50s here in the Boston area.  I am mentally preparing to be covered in ticks this year.
That also reminds me to reset the mouse traps this weekend.

Field mice have been a problem on our property since 2001. Every winter, droves of them.

In 2020 during lockdown we were overrun by rats. Nothing at Home Depot worked. Then I was told that farmers have a whole higher level of weapons. I bought a bucket of farmer-grade poison chunks. Threw a few in basement corners and under crawl spaces. The rats disappeared, found three victims.

And incidentally have not seen a field mouse since. No more traps needed.

/CSB

Did you try a cat? Or cats?

You hit a nerve. I love cats and dogs. A perfect household would have two of each. Wife is allergic to cat dander.

I grew up with cats. Yup. No mice.


Sorry about that. Can your wife learn to hunt rats?
 
Captain Carrot Cake
2023-01-31 12:27:13 PM  
Twenty below celsius for a couple of days you say? Meh. ... I've lived with -30 throughout the month of February in Montreal a few years ago, so bring it on.
 
Mikey1969 [OhFark]
2023-01-31 12:31:42 PM  
Yet here in Utah, we've had a nice water winter, but it's stayed so cold, I think it's only completely melted once. And this morning, it was - 1 when I got up. Usually, we get down into the teens for a week or so this time of year, but this year, it's been the whole winter. It's been nice!
 
Portkey [OhFark]
2023-01-31 1:27:36 PM  

towatchoverme: And two days of seasonally appropriate weather is all anyone will remember and not weeks and weeks of green grass in January in Southern Ontario.

It's why we're sooooo boned.


We shouldn't still be in mud season in January :(

I've noticed the last few years that the seasons seem to have shifted...like they start and finish a month later than they used to. Last October (2022), it was 14C on the 23rd. I distinctly remember taking my brother trick-or-treating in a blizzard years ago, and it was always at least cold if not snowing on Halloween.
 
good_2_go
2023-01-31 1:33:32 PM  
We haven't had a strictly "snow" storm this winter.  Every significant snowfall has included ice pellets or freezing rain.  Mr. Plow has been to my place 8 times this winter, and 3 of those the "snow" had so much water mixed in he didn't even try to put it through the snow blower - just used the blade.
 
Capt_Fodder
2023-01-31 4:22:02 PM  

emotion_lotion: More like "A boot to the head".

/someone please get the reference


NAH, nah!
 
SumoJeb [OhFark]
2023-01-31 4:32:11 PM  
We are in the middle of a heavy snowfall right now. 40cm by tomorrow afternoon. It's nice and light since the temps are close to -10c
 
Northern
2023-02-01 12:23:26 AM  

August11: Northern: We're going to have two cold days, then temps back in the 40s and 50s here in the Boston area.  I am mentally preparing to be covered in ticks this year.
That also reminds me to reset the mouse traps this weekend.

Field mice have been a problem on our property since 2001. Every winter, droves of them.

In 2020 during lockdown we were overrun by rats. Nothing at Home Depot worked. Then I was told that farmers have a whole higher level of weapons. I bought a bucket of farmer-grade poison chunks. Threw a few in basement corners and under crawl spaces. The rats disappeared, found three victims.

And incidentally have not seen a field mouse since. No more traps needed.

/CSB


No rats thankfully.  I have cage traps for the mice and let them go across town at a park.  Used to set out poison and the smell was awful, one died on top of a heat vent.
Twice a year is all it takes, spring and fall.
 
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