Canuck

  Tuesday, 31 August 2004

Summer chill leaves experts with red faces < 11:40:36 AM>.

Canada's weather forecasters are confessing that their predictions for the summer season were so wretched that Canadians would have known roughly as much without any forecast at all.

"Never have we been so wrong for so long in so many parts of the country," said David Phillips, the senior climatologist at Environment Canada. [GAM-National] 'But when all was said and done, it was a stinker of a summer nearly everywhere: cool, wet and dull. In fact, it was the coolest summer since 1992, when Mount Pinatubo spewed ash into the atmosphere.

Winnipeg had the coldest summer on record. Crops froze in Saskatchewan. And Toronto chalked up about 125 fewer hours of summer sunshine than people have come to expect: just 700 compared to the normal 825.

Vancouver, Victoria and Yukon were some of the few parts of the country that were hot and dry.'

For some time I've been calling this 'the summer that wasn't'.

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Why Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter has written a passionate diatribe against George Bush. [Guardian Unlimited] 'Jesus, he's not even American, he's Canadian, from a modest upbringing outside Ottawa.'

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Canadian Press - HALIFAX (CP) - At least eight flights were grounded and hundreds of passengers inconvenienced after a man carrying a bag slipped through security at Halifax International Airport without being properly checked Monday. [Yahoo! News - World]

Surprising. Honestly the most rigorous boarding checks I've been through in the past couple of years (aside from the first flight days after 9-11) have been in Halifax.

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Canadian Press - HALIFAX (CP) - At least eight flights were grounded and hundreds of passengers inconvenienced after a man carrying a bag slipped through security at Halifax International Airport without being properly checked Monday. [Yahoo! News - World]

Surprising. Honestly the most rigorous boarding checks I've been through in the past couple of years (aside from the first flight days after 9-11) have been in Halifax.