> Fourth... Raph, I sympathize with ya... I just chatted with Wildfire yesterday. We were discussing the >weather differences between Toronto, Canada and Harlingen, TX (yeah opposite ends of the spectrum >there)... but it seems like you all get the worst of it up there. He told me that winters can be as cold as -48 >degrees and the hottest is like 110 with horrible humidity. That totally sucks. I think our highest was 120 >and like 98% humidity, but our coldest never gets below freezing.. and THAT's REALLY rare. Our winters >are usually the coldest in the mid 40s (that +40)... anyway, it's been a pretty mild june with highs in the low >100s here... but FINALLY we're getting some moisture -- we've been in drought for 8 or 9 years now.
Wellllll....heh, Toronto gets different weather than we do here in Halifax. They get lake effect snow/rain, really bad humidity and extreme temperatures...and they're not nearly as bad for cold weather as, say, the prairies (at least they don't get the humidity). Our winters can be cold, but I don't recall it getting below -30c (-22f)...and the number of times it's gotten below -20c (-4f) isn't all that common. Our snow is far less, as a rule, than most other places, due to the Jet Stream (heh, and we've never had to call in the army to handle a snow fall...). Apparently, we only have a 50% chance of having a White Christmas here. Summers are humid (not as bad as Toronto, but still humid) and we can get to +30c (86f) pretty regularly. I guess I'm saying we don't tend to get the extremes...tornadoes/earthquakes can happen here but almost never do...hurricanes do hit, but seldom with the ferocity seen in the southern US. Even our snow storms tend to be more rain than snow a lot. Raph "> (just what you all wanted...a lesson in Nova Scotian weather <G>)
