It's snowing

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

Rideau River water pics & video

Check out these great photos and videos from Alec Saunders, of high water levels on the Rideau River. In particular -- check out the videos of the falls at Hog's Back and Watson's Mill in Manotick.Related: Ottawa Nature 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

Rant of the Day: Dear Winter: I'm sorry. It's over...

Alison on the Party of 3 blog has a gentle rant about winter:Dear Winter, Although it hurts me to do this, I have to tell you that it's over between us. This relationship has gone on for too long now and I just don't feel the same way about you that I used to. Don't be sad, we had fun. Remember how it started off so romantically in December -- the long walks in the snow, the snowball fights, the

Weather warning RSS feed?

Does anybody know of a Weather warning RSS feed?I know there are lot of weather forecast RSS feeds out there, but I've never been able to find something specifically for warnings/watches.If you know of one, please post in the comments!

Remembering the 1998 ice storm

It was ten years ago this week that a massive ice storm crippled our region. Several web sites are looking back on the events with some great photos and stories. Here are some links:Ottawa CitizenHydro OttawaCBC Ottawa: photos, storiesCBC ArchivesEnvironment CanadaRelated: Ottawa Weather Guide

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 -