Our reputation as the great white north, the land of ice and snow, may be at risk here because what we have seen is rather anomalous weather conditions for the last year particularly.
That just shows you that sometimes weather does balance off. Sometimes you get milder winters here and colder winters there.
All of this is a bit of a yawner from a weather point of view. It's dramatic because it's so sudden.
It is wild out there -- there's a lot of misery on the weather map from coast to coast to coast. We'd sent out search parties looking for winter and we finally found it, and it's here, and it's beginning to bite us deep and hard.