I want to be proactive before the next storm... What's the best way to advertise for a local kid to shovel my driveway? I refuse to get on Facebook and I can't find any community board for Legacy. Any ideas? I tried MowSnowPros App and it seemed fine, just a bit too expensive.
My lower back thanks you in advance!
I have a couple of brothers who live nearby shoveling my walk and cutting my grass for the past couple of years. I pay them minimum $20. per shovel, and $ 30. + depending on the depth of the snow. For grass cutting it's $35. a cut. I bought them some RYOBI battery operated equipment to help them, and as my contribution to climate change.
As others have said, just start knocking on doors, and it probably won't be too long before you find someone. Also you could check with your local Community Association rep and see if anyone is asking for work.
It's so nice to see the younger generation getting back to making money in this fashion...and great for us old folks.
This has been one of the most stress free winters I can remember. We had like a week and a half of -30 where half of CP stomped their feet and screamed that they were leaving this stupid city and country for the south. And then it's mostly hovered around 0 to -5 other than that.
Seems like November and December were a lot colder than normal, but then January and February have been quite mild. I remember sitting on the deck the last day or two of October talking about how amazing the weather was - then it snowed Nov 1 and was cold until January.
Definitely haven't seen much snowfall though besides one or two dumps.
And you've totally misinterpreted what they're saying. They are NOT saying "Calgary has received just 46% of its annual average snowfall", they're saying that on average Calgary is still typically anticipating 46% of its annual snowfall over the rest of the winter. Which is... a nothingburger of a statement, we all know this already; March and April are the snowiest months in Calgary. According to TWN's chart, Calgary has received 109 cm out of an annual total of 142 cm, or ~77%.
The 'normals' (from the 1981-2010 dataset) from EC are:
September = 3.9 cm
October = 10.0 cm
November = 16.6 cm
December = 15.0 cm
January = 15.3 cm
February = 14.5 cm
March = 22.7 cm
April = 18.8 cm
May = 11.9 cm
June = 0.1 cm
Environment Canada counts from the airport weather station are:
September = 0 cm
October = 13.2 cm
November = 29.4 cm
December = 26.1 cm January = 6.4 cm
February = trace
That January number is missing data from the 27th, which according to at least one source—our very own Acey —had 33 cm at the airport.
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Originally Posted by Acey
Weather Records has yesterday at 33 cm, the 7th snowiest day on record. Certainly didn't seem like that much here in the deep NE.
(I figured I had ~8 cm that day at my house.)
With 33 cm added to the totals above, the cumulative snowfall since October is 108.1 cm, which is pretty close to the number The Weather Network had.
The takeaway really ought to be that this winter has actually been unusually snowy, overall.
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Huzzah to Accuweather for calling it! That was trace to no snow this morning to wake up to.
Didn't stop the city from salting all the roads last night in anticipation of snow that never came. White powder clouds on dry roads on my trek this morning.
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Huh, it's hailing lightly in the NW. Hail in February. Now I've seen everything.
I thought it was hail at first, but there were tear drop shaped clumpy snow by Deerfoot city yesterday that were between the size of corn kernels and kidney beans. I picked it up and it melted quite quickly. I grabbed a few and showed my friends. First time I've ever seen snow like that, and now I'm mad I didn't take pictures of it.
I thought it was hail at first, but there were tear drop shaped clumpy snow by Deerfoot city yesterday that were between the size of corn kernels and kidney beans. I picked it up and it melted quite quickly. I grabbed a few and showed my friends. First time I've ever seen snow like that, and now I'm mad I didn't take pictures of it.
Do you know the difference between chickpeas and garbonzo beans?
I thought it was hail at first, but there were tear drop shaped clumpy snow by Deerfoot city yesterday that were between the size of corn kernels and kidney beans. I picked it up and it melted quite quickly. I grabbed a few and showed my friends. First time I've ever seen snow like that, and now I'm mad I didn't take pictures of it.
And you've totally misinterpreted what they're saying. They are NOT saying "Calgary has received just 46% of its annual average snowfall", they're saying that on average Calgary is still typically anticipating 46% of its annual snowfall over the rest of the winter. Which is... a nothingburger of a statement, we all know this already; March and April are the snowiest months in Calgary. According to TWN's chart, Calgary has received 109 cm out of an annual total of 142 cm, or ~77%.
The 'normals' (from the 1981-2010 dataset) from EC are:
September = 3.9 cm
October = 10.0 cm
November = 16.6 cm
December = 15.0 cm
January = 15.3 cm
February = 14.5 cm
March = 22.7 cm
April = 18.8 cm
May = 11.9 cm
June = 0.1 cm
Environment Canada counts from the airport weather station are:
September = 0 cm
October = 13.2 cm
November = 29.4 cm
December = 26.1 cm January = 6.4 cm
February = trace
That January number is missing data from the 27th, which according to at least one source—our very own Acey —had 33 cm at the airport.
(I figured I had ~8 cm that day at my house.)
With 33 cm added to the totals above, the cumulative snowfall since October is 108.1 cm, which is pretty close to the number The Weather Network had.
The takeaway really ought to be that this winter has actually been unusually snowy, overall.
—had 33 cm at the airport.
