The Dec 16th snowstorm...

[abitton]

Ouch...

We got 41 cm in Montreal (16 inches)...

Check it out...

 

[MikeC]

You get no sympathy from me. I grew up in Buffalo, NY where 16in of snow barely fazes the locals. If you get 25 or 35 inches in a day then post pictures...:14:

 

[abitton]

Yeah, Buffalo gets quite a bit...

How cold does it get in the dead of winter?

A.

 

[Tamas]

Toronto got some of that storm as well......it was fun driving that night....so many people seem to forget what the white stuff is from last year's winter. Drives me mad!

 

[abitton]

Last big snowstorm like this was in March 1971 (I wasn't around yet)... 43.2 cm...

I can just imagine the snowbanks when you consider all the snow that was already on the ground...

Sigh... Only 5 months before diving season... Still don't own a drysuit...

Alex

 

[garyfotodiver]

I was in Montreal on Dec. 5 & 6. It was fun walking up to McGill University from the Hilton Bonaventure hotel. Can't imagine what it would be like with serious snow on the ground.

 

[MikeC]

Yeah, Buffalo gets quite a bit...

How cold does it get in the dead of winter?

A.

Check your data, Syracuse, NY gets more snow. How cold does it get in Buffalo?? Well I do remember one year in college when just before the end of the Fall semester, mid December, it hit 70+ degrees. Of course, in February the temps can get nasty, maybe down to a few degrees below 0 degrees F, just like Chicago or maybe even Cleveland.

 

[abitton]

That's why there's more snow than here in Montreal... It gets too cold for it to snow in Jan and Feb... We routinely get -20 F to -30 F temps, with usually one or two weeks of solid -30 F highs...

We get our major snow mostly in March, although there are snowfalls all winter long, when the temps get a bit warmer. When this last one hit, it was about 20-25 F, but the previous week or so we had been getting 5-10...

Check your data, Syracuse, NY gets more snow. How cold does it get in Buffalo?? Well I do remember one year in college when just before the end of the Fall semester, mid December, it hit 70+ degrees. Of course, in February the temps can get nasty, maybe down to a few degrees below 0 degrees F, just like Chicago or maybe even Cleveland.