David Phillips Winter Quotations

I think (this winter) will be a dress rehearsal. It may very well be a glimpse or preview of what winter will be like in the future, where we will be wondering where winter is.

We're almost like the no-cold-weather zone. Almost every day but one since the start of winter has been above normal.

Diseases, viruses and germs will survive the (warmer) winter. The best thing about our winter climate in this country is when we get cold winters it kills a lot of those things.

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.

It's our best guess at what we think the character and personality of the winter in Canada will be like. It's not saying whether it's going to be a white Christmas, or whether there's going to be a January thaw, or what voting day will be like weather-wise. It's none of that.

The easy answer is the fact that the source of cold air this winter tended to be more in Eurasia and not North America. So what we got was more Pacific air and not Arctic air.