darksabre Posted March 10, 2018 Report Posted March 10, 2018 I can't see the birds, I only can hear them, and I can't match calls to species, but I can tell they're early. Animals know weather so much better that we do. Spring is imminent. The cat was going bonkers at 5am. Woke me up and I never got back to sleep. I think he can hear the birds. You're right, spring is coming. Quote
Stoner Posted March 10, 2018 Report Posted March 10, 2018 I am hearing varieties of bird chirps that I normally do not hear until late March or early April. Mourning doves have been, uh, mourning here for three weeks. For years I would start hearing them in mid-March, almost to the day. March 15, usually. This kind of stuff makes me uneasy. Quote
Sabres Fan in NS Posted March 12, 2018 Report Posted March 12, 2018 Our 3rd Nor'easter in a week. https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/ns-19_metric_e.html This could be the big one. Quote
Sabres Fan in NS Posted March 13, 2018 Report Posted March 13, 2018 The wind has started to really pick up and the first few snow flakes flew by just now. https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/ns-19_metric_e.html It's likely to get ugly around here. The wind is the scariest part to me. Wish us luck with NS Power. Quote
Sabres Fan in NS Posted March 13, 2018 Report Posted March 13, 2018 The latest radar imagery is quite impressive ... https://weather.gc.ca/radar/index_e.html?id=XGO Quote
MattPie Posted March 13, 2018 Report Posted March 13, 2018 We got missed by this one; maybe an inch of slushy snow over night. Good luck NS! Quote
North Buffalo Posted March 13, 2018 Report Posted March 13, 2018 Yeh we got touched 3 inches a brief period of wind... lol schools closed... good luck NS Quote
Drunkard Posted March 13, 2018 Report Posted March 13, 2018 It snowed briefly in my neck of the woods last night but the ground was too warm for it to stick. We still had a 2 hour delay to work this morning though. Thank you Uncle Sam. Quote
Sabres Fan in NS Posted March 13, 2018 Report Posted March 13, 2018 Thanks guys. Still here and online. It's just started here. Some snow and the wind has picked up. Not abandoning the office yet. We'll see what happens. Seems that the worst will be early evening and into the over-night. It all switches to rain in the early hours of tomorrow morning. Quote
ubkev Posted March 13, 2018 Report Posted March 13, 2018 We got missed by this one; maybe an inch of slushy snow over night. Good luck NS! Such bullsh*t. Everywhere I want to go skiing is getting over a foot and a half and everywhere I CAN go skiing is getting half an inch. Quote
Sabres Fan in NS Posted March 14, 2018 Report Posted March 14, 2018 Well, we were lucky. The lights flickered a few times, bit no outages. Many others not so fortunate. We didn't get as much snow as expected before the switch over to rain. There was a brief period (maybe 30 minutes) where there was some freezing rain and that combined with the high winds was pretty scary. Winds are still pretty strong this morning, but better. Seems like we are in store for another 'weather event' tomorrow. Quote
Eleven Posted March 14, 2018 Report Posted March 14, 2018 Well, we were lucky. The lights flickered a few times, bit no outages. Many others not so fortunate. We didn't get as much snow as expected before the switch over to rain. There was a brief period (maybe 30 minutes) where there was some freezing rain and that combined with the high winds was pretty scary. Winds are still pretty strong this morning, but better. Seems like we are in store for another 'weather event' tomorrow. We're having one right now. Hopefully the last of the season. Quote
North Buffalo Posted March 14, 2018 Report Posted March 14, 2018 Due another next Monday into Tues according to our predictors Quote
Ogre Posted March 14, 2018 Report Posted March 14, 2018 We're having one right now. Hopefully the last of the season. Please let this be so. I’m so tired of running around in knee deep snow. Tired of cold howling wind. Hanging iron this winter has been miserable. It’s miserable to begin with before you add in the winter variable. MAKE IT STOP! Quote
Stoner Posted March 14, 2018 Report Posted March 14, 2018 The coolest, smartest, most beautiful bird of them all has returned. The killdeer. They'll have to deal with this snow, but I'm glad they've returned a little early. Quote
Sabres Fan in NS Posted March 14, 2018 Report Posted March 14, 2018 The coolest, smartest, most beautiful bird of them all has returned. The killdeer. They'll have to deal with this snow, but I'm glad they've returned a little early. Did you take that photo? Very nice. +++++ A flock of Robins and Cedar Waxwings swooped in and ate all our Holly Berries. You know it is very nearly spring when ... Quote
Sabres Fan in NS Posted March 14, 2018 Report Posted March 14, 2018 Nova Scotia Power better be feeling shame ... http://outagemap.nspower.ca/external/default.html It wasn't that bad a storm really. Quote
Stoner Posted March 14, 2018 Report Posted March 14, 2018 (edited) Did you take that photo? Very nice. +++++ A flock of Robins and Cedar Waxwings swooped in and ate all our Holly Berries. You know it is very nearly spring when ... I can't take credit for it. I can never get within 20 feet of them. The reason I call them smart is that as soon as you approach their nest, which is usually made out in the open, maybe in a slight depression in the ground, they begin their warning call and start off running. Your eye follows them. Sometimes YOU follow them. They even feign a broken wing to make you more interested or to make a natural enemy more keen to pursue. Before we all know it, we're 100 yards from their home. Edited March 14, 2018 by PASabreFan Quote
Ogre Posted March 14, 2018 Report Posted March 14, 2018 I can't take credit for it. I can never get within 20 feet of them. The reason I call them smart is that as soon as you approach their nest, which is usually made out in the open, maybe in a slight depression in the ground, they begin their warning call and start off running. Your eye follows them. Sometimes YOU follow them. They even feign a broken wing to make you more interested or to make a natural enemy more keen to pursue. Before we all know it, we're 100 yards from their home. Slightly less than half of my nine acre property is house/lawn/meadow. I hold off brush hogging the early onset of weeds in the meadow as to not upset the killdeer nests. I’m not especially fond of them because I can’t have an open window in the spring due to their annoying and very early AM calls. I’m no killer though. No killer dear. Quote
Sabres Fan in NS Posted March 17, 2018 Report Posted March 17, 2018 And now it's 50 below ... https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/ns-19_metric_e.html Quote
Sabres Fan in NS Posted March 20, 2018 Report Posted March 20, 2018 Yet another Nor'easter coming our way ... https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/ns-19_metric_e.html Some start to Spring, eh? I have the first of my annual (14th year) free income tax clinics (for folks of lesser means and who would not be able to hire me to do their taxes) tomorrow afternoon and evening. And then on Thursday morning I am going over to file a families taxes that have mobility issues and can't come to the clinic. Quote
Sabres Fan in NS Posted March 21, 2018 Report Posted March 21, 2018 Here we go ... https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/ns-19_metric_e.html I am off to my tax clinic. We should be able to finish it up and get home before it gets too bad. NS out ... Quote
North Buffalo Posted March 21, 2018 Report Posted March 21, 2018 Here we go ... https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/ns-19_metric_e.html I am off to my tax clinic. We should be able to finish it up and get home before it gets too bad. NS out ... I just started sticking in Southern Weschester bout an inch and a half of snow covered slush but snowing hardNot good : https://twitter.com/fischerphoto/status/976515463311167494?s=21 Quote
ubkev Posted March 21, 2018 Report Posted March 21, 2018 It was absolutely puking snow on the mountain in Scranton this morning from 9 til 11. Got almost 5 inches in 2 hours. I looked like a yeti every time I stepped off the chairlift. Quote
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