Posted on 06/28/2018 7:08:36 AM PDT by george76
Residents of Newfoundland, Canada, were greeted with snow and biting cold winds Tuesday morning despite the fact that July begins in just a few days.
Gander, Newfoundland, reported light snow and a wind chill of 20 degrees Fahrenheit in the hours after sunrise Tuesday. The average high temperature in this city of nearly 12,000 people is in the 60s during June and near 70 degrees in July.
Photos and videos from Gander and other parts of Newfoundland showed the snow accumulating not only on grassy areas but also on roads. For geographic reference, Newfoundland is a part of Canada's easternmost province in the northwest Atlantic Ocean.
This is the final week of school in Newfoundland, yet kids and school buses had to trudge through winterlike weather conditions instead of the summer sun.
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Newfoundland's Transportation and Works Department had plows removing snow from roads in west-central and central Newfoundland.
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This is the second snowfall in Newfoundland this month. Another storm affected the area with snow in early June.
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You're right...according to the local weather guy it's 'white rain' and there's upwards of 10" of it in central Newfoundland.
Custer’s 1876 march to the Little Bighorn battlefield was delayed a few days by a blizzard in the North Dakota Badlands in late June.
I’ve read that the summer black-flies in the interior of the island are legend.
Now, technically it’s after the summer solstice, but - is this the last snow of last winter or the first snow of next winter?
I remember spending a 4th of July in Boothbay about 30 years back. It was fogged in and 50 degrees during the day. I had to buy a sweatshirt because I had not packed one.
It’s no legend! Blackflies in Canada’s boreal forest are more maddening than the mosquitos, as if that were possible!
Here’s a great song about them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8HrGhn9nLI
New England gets 24 weather patterns headed its way. I guess Newfoundland gets the majority of cold ones. I’ll have to talk to my B-I-L aboat it.
Coldest spring I can remember here in San Francisco. It hasn’t risen above the 50’s and low 60’s more than a couple of times so far this year.
late spring or early autumn?
late spring or early autumn?
Since it is after the solstice, doesn’t it qualify as the first snow of Winter, 2018? :)
Cripes...I hope it snows in Kentucky soon! I’m sick of mowing the yard. If it doesn’t snow soon, I won’t be able to put up the lawn mower until October or November.
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One time (in the 1930’s I think) they cancelled the 4th of July parade in Calumet (Keweenaw peninsula) Michigan because of the snow (according to my mother RIP).
“...I was stationed at Loring AFB, Maine....”
Limestone, ME...snow in August? Yeah, I have no problem believing that.
“...I’ve read that the summer black-flies in the interior of the island are legend....”
I don’t know about there, but if they’re anything like the black-flies in eastern Maine around June, I can personally attest that they are fricken’ brutal. The air can get so heavy & thick with em, you accidentally inhale them while breathing. Their bite is worse than a mosquito bite....real nasty littler boogers. But usually by July, they’re pretty much gone. I don’t know what’s worse: Maine black flies or Louisiana love bugs. Both are nasty.
Yes... it’s that ‘warming’ Gore warned us about.../s
Back in the early 70’s the Florida Turnpike was thick with love bugs, clouds of them. The rest stops had windshield washers installed and a lot of people put bug screens across the front grill to keep the smashed critters from clogging up radiators.
It’s that Globull Warming.
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