Weekly Weigh-in

I know there may be someone out there, somewhere, who is anxiously awaiting the weekly update on my weight loss goal. This is where the drum roll would play. 0.36 kg is the total for the week. I know it may not sound like much, but it is the lowest number I have been since I have started, and the highest amount of weight loss. And it is better than going up 0.36 kgs for the week. So my total is now 7.27 kg. That would be 0.8 pounds this week and 16 pounds total for those in State College.

Speaking of State College, nice segue eh? Kate Bilo of AccuWeather was an on the scene reporter in Binghamton NY reporting on the nor'easter storm that made it rain a lot here. She did a great job and gets better with every report she does.

Who was right?

I know at least a dozen people are dying to know which weather forecast was correct. Based on the official hourly observations from Environment Canada. The answer is.... NOOOOOOO-BODY, as Blaine Lastman would say in his Bad Boy commercials. Only 3 hours were listed as snow/rain precipatation and I doubt that would have caused any accumulation. Even here, in the centre of the universe, we had no snow on the ground during or after the storm. The only problem I saw, or didn't see, was the HD coverage of the first night of the NHL playoffs that was knocked out by the bad weather. To be fair, the folks in Warkworth and Roseneath had snow, apparently so did Trenton and Belleville. But since we were talking about Toronto, they all scored a big fat goose egg.

Now there is another storm possibly headed our way. an April Nor'easter that could cause major damage. So keep your heads down in the areas that are predicted to get over 30 cm of snow.
My weightloss buddy, Kate Bilo is on her way to a unnamed secret location to report on the storm for accuweather.com so I send her and her camera "crew" traveling mercies for safety on their travels as well as any one else who has to be on the road. And for those of you who don't have to be on the road this weekend, STAY HOME!!!

So who's right - part deux

It is now Wednesday morning and it looks like Environment Canada and TWN have traded forecasts for Toronto.

TWN is now saying rain or snow today, up to 10 cm of accumulation changing over to just rain Wednesday overnight.

Environment Canada is now saying Toronto will basically get just rain with some wet snow mixed in.

680News, I haven't listened to today and can't get their online audio stream to work.

AccuWeather, no update from Brett Anderson

TWC is calling for light rain and snow this afternoon, periods of rain and snow tonight changing to rain overnight. Rain with some snow mixing in for tomorrow afternoon. Again no accumulation totals.

So who's right?

We apparently have ticked off Mother Nature so she is sending us some more winter weather this week and we also have a variety of guesses as to what will happen over the next 36 hours.

Since I was working today I was listening to 680 News for their traffic updates and since they do "traffic and weather, together on the ones" and they have their own staff of meteorologists. I heard Harold Hosein say that Toronto could get 10 cm of wet snow that won't accumulate Wednesday night and possibly another 10 cm on Thursday.

The publicly funded Environment Canada, which issues the forecasts that most radio/TV stations use is saying for Wednesday evening in Toronto, periods of wet snow mixed with rain. Snowfall amount possibly reaching 4 cm. Periods of snow for Thursday with no predictions for amounts.

The privately owned TWN (The Weather Network) which uses the same raw data that the publicly funded Environment Canada is calling for1-3 cm of snow in Toronto along with 2-4 mm of rain in the next 24 hours.

And finally, Brett Anderson who is the Canadian weather expert at AccuWeather is saying Toronto will get 4-8cm of wet snow mainly on grass and secondary roads.

And just for fun, here is the Toronto forecast from the American weather channel. Cloudy early with periods of light rain and snow later in the day. Wed night: Cloudy with rain and snow. Thursday: Rain. No accumulation amounts mentioned.

Since I am not working on Wednesday it will be interesting to see who is the closest to being correct.