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The weather has gone postal

A snowplow hit a car this morning. The visibilty was 2 feet. the winds were 50knots, the snow is blowing, it was freezing rain a couple hours ago, there is about 3//4' snow on the ground. Bus cancelled. woo ****ing hoo!

Now, its starting to be sunny out. The hell?
 
Here, at the other side of the globe, it's weird too!
It's normally rather cool in the beginning of winter, something like 16C (60-65F), but today it was warm enough for me to go out wearing just a t-shirt without a wink (over 75F I guess). Moreover, they say that in the near days it will go over 80F. :eek:
 
... although it was snowing here on Monday, but nothing like you Canadians get.

It's all relative. Around here we get one tornado every 20 years, very small tropical storm aftermaths, sometimes an average earthquake. So we count on the snow to get even with the rest of the world.

Our annual snow management (in Quebec, not Canada) budget is 55 million dollars. We busted it in december :confused:

The last reliable number I have on the volume of snow that has been transported to different snow depots (basically snow that's been removed from the roads) is 1,7 million cubic meters by the 13th of february.

I say, what the United States have as an army, we have as snow plows.