Okay, so today/tonight/tomorrow, we're having a good old-fashioned blizzard. It does happen here too--although my recent research revealed that Calgary, on average, gets less than one-fifth the precipitation Toronto does in the month of December. Tonight, the temp dips (they say) to a wind chill factor of minus 40 Celsius. Tomorrow and the next two days, the high temp will be, like minus 23 Celsius. However you slice it, that's cold.

And while on the subject of natural phenomena, I must record this: we were enthralled this past week watching Canada geese in the sky. I've never seen anything like it before, though Ontario has lots of the critters. On some days you could see row after row after long row of them in different parts of the sky, all honking and all, basically--get this--heading south! They really were migrating, passing through, coming from somewhere north of here and going somewhere south of here, getting out while the gittin's good.

Back in Ontario, geese did fly around in circles honking, but then they'd land by Lake Ontario or on some other warm spot where they'd proceed to nibble grass and produce unbelievable amounts of green poop. They never got around to actually migrating.

Here they can't get away with that kind of nonsense since, literally, they'd freeze their tails off. So instead, to the south they go--they really do.

I love it!