It can stop snowing now.....

wow thats alot of snow… i guess thats normal view this time of year in Canada?

When I shovel snow in winter, I get so hot that I put off even my T-Shirt. shovelling snow in bare upper body using ofc gloves and a woollen hat. Even so if it snows, is windy and –10 degrees Celsius. It feels so good after, when I get back into the warm living room.

Global warming is fake news
What if we were around in the ice age ,would we call it global cooling?

During my childhood here in northern Ohio winters were colder and snow was frequent. In recent years we’ve seen more rain than snow. This winter I’d estimate the total snowfall at around 3 inches. What I find disturbing is the attitude of the local ‘meteorologists’ about the warm winters who insist that 60 degrees in December and January is normal and temperatures below freezing are abnormal.

Denying that of billions of humans affect climate and environment is like denying a goldfish is the cause of a fishbowl becoming cloudy.

I used to like snow until I had kids. I hate snow days. They eat up my vacation time!

Your hate is misdirected. It’s your kids’ fault, not the snow.

It's pretty normal at higher elevations but my town is at around 328 metres above sea level only. Still, usually every 5 years or so like now the snow hammers us a little more. My wife really enjoys it though as she says it keeps me fit in Winter. When I was 40 it was a lot of fun and when I turned 50 I felt like 30 clearing all the snow. Now I turned 60 and some days I think I hate the snow, but it's all good after a warm cup of coffee!

Keeps you fit until it kills you.

You know, there was a time 2 days ago where I thought I was going to get a heart attack or something, so you're not wrong in what you say lol.

Wet snow is heart attack snow.

Depends where you are in Canada. This amount of snow is usual in the east, but not the west. If you visit Canada in the winter you will need snowshoes for Quebec and anything east. Warm rubber boots for southern “ slushy” Ontario and sunglasses for Saskatchewan and Akberta to avoid snow blindness. There is rarely this much snow there, but there is usually a thin light layer with a bright blinding sun. The biggest snowfalls don’t hit there until spring. Once you make it to the west coast you will need rain gear.

Just lost a friend to a heart attack after shovelling snow. He cleared away the first snow fall of the year, got in his car and had a heart attack a few miles away. He was in great shape too. Apparently cold weather and hard work create the perfect storm for heart attacks.

I grew up where we would get the mass storms like that. Wet weather would come over the great lakes and just dump. Sorry to hear that Rage, “Heart attack snow” is spot on. Don’t miss the snow that much, but I do miss it. We get snow here, but anything more than a bit shuts everything down. Lots of big hills, and not enough snow to make buying a bunch of plows worthwhile (we can go several winters with no snow at all) makes for treacherous driving.

Yeah here where I am it’s not much the snow but the Arctic winds hanging around here now. Let’s see… –7 Celsius now!

How old was he? Even though I'm sixty, I tried hard to keep in shape, but this years snow storms have worn me out a little. The pics in my OP is about 30% of what I did as I had to clear the roof on my car port as well as the back of my house. I think it's time I build an extension in the front and back of my house so I don't have to go through this next winter.

Makes ya wish for a flamethrower, don’t it?

Flame throwers would be huge up here...... I think you're on to something

I want to respond to this so badly but every response I type seems to get political so I’d better not.

Made it a routine, snow shoveling. Not to despair, I start out so slowly just clearing a shovel’s width and not too deep. I pickup steam and widen the trench another 18 inches or so. When at at about 4 1/2 feet wide, I double down the next 12 to 16 inches deep. So if I tire, I can call it quits and contend with a half done job.
Might take a break, then attack the parking space. The treachery is flinging each scoop above the mound, which some years seem to grow higher than sublimation / runoff.
A few years ago I rented the services of a youngster to take care of the nasty stuff. Unfortunately, as we get about the same total snowfall each year and if not evenly spaced storms, we’re hit with successive downfalls. The chap abandoned after some 6 weeks.

BTW live in Quebec, ~ 3 meters of snow, plus the many rainy days. Driving is sometimes a perilous affair. Not uncommon to see mountains along the commercial avenues till they clear all the cars and take out the heavy equipment - pulling all-nighters and morning come everything is pristinely clean with trees adoring an angelic coat of virgin snow.

Then the cold sets in, commonly in the –10 to –20º C.

But differing from tropical heat, you gear up with the winter parkas and “tuques”. Warm clothes in layers is the secret. As the day progresses and my body adjusts, I peel the sweater, T shirt, or the coat liner.

Winter is harsh, but it keeps us fit. If someone relies on some local friend for their winter blues, they usually move south of Montreal, or Ontario, or another western province.

And we console ourselves those East are getting it worst.

@klrman and Sidney Stratton, it’s unfortunately going to get worse.

Climate change will make it so that wild temperature swings will get more frequent, and the temperature deltas will grow.

Even today, even trying to remove all the snow, the snow still melted, and froze into a 25mm thick ice sheet.