Around here (southern Saskatchewan), it doesn't take much snow to generate a lot of runoff compared to major dumps of rain. Probably because the snow melt is running over frozen ground. I know spring is here when all of a sudden the big puddle in back of our place just disappears overnight.
jadero
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Point taken, but I didn't forget about it. I go hiking and tenting on the ice on Lake Diefenbaker, so I know all about it. I just didn't know how to bring it in without lending yet more credence to all the myths and misconceptions.
There are a lot of differences between actual -25C with no wind and windchill of -25C. For example at -25 with no wind, my wool parka with a fairly open knit is perfect on its own for a wide range of activities. But with a windchill of -25, I'm better off with my fleece bunny hug under a windbreaker, then layering up with a tightly knit wool sweater when I'm inactive.
When I still biked, -15 with no wind quickly turned into -25 windchill, but if the windchill was already -25, hopping on the bike didn't make a huge difference, so I dressed about the same in both cases.
Yup. I surprised myself when I pulled the last decade of data for my nearest Environment Canada weather station (Lucky Lake, SK). I don't remember the number, but it was shockingly few days with a low colder than -30C. I was similarly surprised by the low number of days with a low colder than -20C.
In some accents and dialects, "draws" is exactly what you get, so it's not any more of a mispronunciation than "terlet" for "toilet" or any of thousands of other cases.
What? That's horrifying!
Sure, let's ban everything we don't understand and every tool that can be used to break into something. Next we'll be banning rocks because they break windows and crowbars because they can be used to jimmy locks.
...the misguided pairing of ham and cheese with the fruit.
Long before I had even heard of pizza (raised in the middle of nowhere in southern Saskatchewan), one of our special occasion dishes was ham roasted with pineapple slices.
Leftovers were made into ham and cheese, ham and pineapple, and even ham and cheese and pineapple sandwiches. Sometimes Dad added a slice of tomato and grilled them open face in the oven under the broiler until the cheese browned. Heaven on Earth, and I didn't even like either tomato or pineapple on their own. I still don't like pineapple unless it's paired with ham.
One of the standard condiments when setting out a cold cut, make your own sandwich buffet was homemade pineapple-mustard.
Now I'm hungry, and I just finished lunch!
Yes. My also limited understanding is that it might be traced back to some of the original treaties with the Indigenous peoples which said (or at least implied) that the Indigenous peoples were ceding only the surface to a depth of several inches.
Sadly, the government then turned that into "Crown ownership" (as contrasted with private ownership) instead of Indigenous ownership. Much to the detriment of the economic and political power of the Indigenous peoples.
How about maybe seeking input from people with actual, concrete expertise in the relevant fields on what can be done today, tomorrow, etc to, you know, actually meet the damned goals!
I sympathize. Circumstances mean that we actually do still need, not just a phone number, but a landline. We just hang up on those rare occasions when our call screening fails.
The trouble is that means policy is being set or supported based on the people who don't know enough about anything to even figure out how to manage their phones.
We're all doomed.
Hey, don't you know that unmeasured = nonexistent? We're all just infants playing peek-a-boo.
I'm far from being any kind of expert, but yes, that's the way it looks to me.
The pavement and hard packed gravel roads run pretty close to the same, whether it's meltwater or rain, but the dirt roads, ditches, hills and coulees run very differently. My guess is that with meltwater, the ground is still frozen, so can't absorb the water.