Snow, and being easily amused

[pphaneuf]

Almost 40 centimeters of snow now. CBC seems to say that it might be a record-breaking snowfall for Montreal, in fact.

In other news, this optical illusion is pretty cool.

Comments

[cpirate.livejournal.com]

WTF? "The last time [Ottawa] had over 25 centimetres of snow in one day was back in 1993." Those pansies, I thought they had real winters up there! Where I'm from, anything less than 25cm is called a flurry.

[taxlady.livejournal.com]

Take a look at the map. It isn't "up there" compared to Newfoundland.

[cpirate.livejournal.com]

Well, it's no further south than here, certainly. It's just that Ottawa has this reputation as being really snowy, which (for me, at least) has just been shattered.

I guess constant small amounts of snow isn't much to sneeze at either.

[azrhey.livejournal.com]

OH!!!

Random useless trivia : Ottawa IS South of Montreal!


Montreal:
Latitude: 45° 30' North
Longitude: 73° 35' West


Ottawa:
Latitude: 45° 25' North
Longitude: 75° 43' West

[cpirate.livejournal.com]

Wow. I must be looking at too many maps assuming "Montreal North" is actual north.

[azrhey.livejournal.com]

I guess that would do it.
My main work tool is the map of Quebec so I get to notice the Ottawa Montreal thing