It's snowing

The winter that never ends: the flurries are falling today, on April 30th.Related: Ottawa Weather Guide

Rant of the Day: The Snow Tax

Zoom has a post on knitnut.net titled "Mayor Larry's Snow Job":A snow tax! Can you believe it? As if we haven’t suffered enough this winter. Talk about adding insult to injury. I only heard about it a few minutes ago, but right off the top of my head, I have three problems with Mayor Larry’s proposed $50 per household snow tax. Read on...Related: Ottawa Politics Guide

Lots and lots of photos and videos of snow

Ottawa must have set a record today -- if not for the 51 56 cm snow over the weekend, then certainly for the huge number of videos and photos taken of the snow.Check out all the pics at flickr, and all the vids on YouTube.We also saw this note on the Ottawa Citizen's web site: "The Citizen's Digital Edition is available free to all readers today (Sunday, March 9, 2008) in light of difficulties

Ottawa's snow by the numbers

There's a great list of Ottawa snow stats on Forestdragon's Weblog. Keep in mind, these were all compiled before the apocalyptic snowfall this weekend. Some highlights:Number of days without snow: 25 Amount of salt used: 220,000-plus tonnes Amount of snow moved: 2.4 million cubic metres Latest recorded snowfall in Ottawa: June 27, 1950 Latest measurable snowfall: May 25, 1961, 2.3 cm Latest and

Snowy weather records

How does yesterday's snow fall stack up to blizzards from years gone by? We sent the question to the Ottawa Public Library's "Ask A Librarian" service. Here's their reply:1 - According to Environment Canada's "National Climate Data and Information Archive", the record for most snowfall in a day was set March 2, 1947, with an accumulation of 40.6 cm. In comparison, Sunday's snowfall (

Really, really, really, really bad snow storm on the way

Environment Canada issued a Winter Storm Warning today for a massive snow storm that's about to hit our city. Somebody at the weather office must have had a thesaurus handy ... the warning is below, and we've emphasized some of the great descriptions they've used to describe the storm:Ottawa North - Kanata - Orléans7:03 PM EST Saturday 15 December 2007Winter storm warning forOttawa North -

Toboggan hills officially open

Two press releases caught our eye last week:First, from the City of Ottawa: City’s approved sledding hills openSecond, from the National Capital Commission: NCC’S TOBOGGAN HILLS IN THE GREENBELT ARE NOW OPENJust curious - why does the City of Ottawa call them "sledding hills", while the NCC calls them "toboggan hills"? We prefer "toboggan" - sounds more Canadian!Related: Ottawa Toboggan Guide