probability of White Christmas

The picture shows the probability of a white Christmas in the USA.
For Canada there is no picture but here is a list....

City White Xmas
St. John's 65%
Goose Bay 100%
Charlottetown 87%
Halifax 59%
Fredericton 85%
Moncton 74%
Saint John 65%
Quebec City 100%
Montreal 80%
Val d'Or 100%
Toronto 57%
Ottawa 83%
Sudbury 96%
Timmins 100%
London 74%
Kitchener 74%
Hamilton 68%
Windsor 41%
Sault Ste.Marie 93%
Thunder Bay 100%
Winnipeg 98%
Brandon 93%
Regina 91%
Saskatoon 98%
Calgary 59%
Edmonton 88%
Kelowna 69%
Kamloops 56%
Vancouver 11%
Victoria 11%
Prince Rupert 13%
Whitehorse 100%
Yellowknife 100%
Iqaluit 100%
Alert 100%

Christmas

Now we are 3 hours west of Williams Lake. We just finished our first Christmas dinner. At least 2 more are scheduled.

There is a lot of snow this year, but we keep getting Chinooks every night so it is slowly melting, but by morning the temperature is cold and crisp to say the least.

It is good for snow machining though. ya, lots of fun.

Vacation

ya, done school.

We are had good drive to Williams Lake with bare roads all the way. There is a couple of inches of light powdery snow on the ground here with the sun shining making it almost blinding. Here on South lake side the sun is not up very long this time of year because the
hills get in the way.

The static electricity is crazy around here. Living on the coast, we had forgotten about that phenomenon. But in the interior of the province, getting shocked is just part of life with the air being so dry and all.

got to go - shopping and skating....

Snow

Its a bit foreign for me seeing everything shut down from the foot of snow around Vancouver. Every other place in Canada would be business as usual, but not not the south coast of BC. I cannot really blame them too much considering this was the snowiest November on record. It was also tied for the wettest November on record, which by the way, is the wettest month of the year on average around here.

Although the -12 C temperature was a far cry from the -41 degrees they got in the Chilcotin area 300km to the northwest of Vancouver, it did create some problems. The newly purchased trolley buses failed to work. so they had to run the old 1970s buses. It took me 2 hours just to get from Burnaby to UBC by transit on Tuesday as a result of the ice up. In comparison, driving takes half an hour.

Driving around here did not seem that bad this week because the main roads are continually salted, sanded and plowed, but the side streets are not designed to accommodate any of this activity resulting is slipperier conditions.

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Total snow : 38.6 cm

Total Precipitation: 350.8 mm