Canada's "winter from hell" is nasty, brutish and will not be short, according to a senior climatologist at Environment Canada who said spring weather is still a distant dream for most parts of the country.
From freezing drizzle, to snow and ice pellets, Central and Eastern Canada faced a buffet of bad weather Wednesday as a storm centred over New England worked its way into the Maritimes, prompting Environment Canada to issue a series of winter storm warnings.
The blizzard conditions led to a one-day delay in the repatriation ceremony in Trenton Ont. for Canada's most recently fallen soldier, the military said.
"Compared to last winter which only lasted six weeks, this one feels like six months, said David Phillips, senior climatologist at Environment Canada. "There has been a lot of national weather misery out there. No one in Canada has escaped it."
Though a respite is expected in parts of Ontario Thursday, another winter storm moving up from the United States will most likely hit southern Ontario by Friday morning and by Saturday, Quebec and Atlantic Canada will face more freezing rain and snow.
Unlike the "six-week winter," of 2007 Mr. Phillips said this year's "national weather misery" will continue with Environment Canada's spring forecast calling for more winter than warmth. Source...
