It is certainly the snowiest December in my yard since I moved here 14 years ago.

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It is certainly the snowiest December in my yard since I moved here 14 years ago. A few March snow dumps might have been came close to the current depth (I haven't tried to get a measuring stick through it, but 50cm sounds about right). Tomorrow's above-freezing forecast (with chance of showers) will compress the powder a bit, but then temperatures are expected to drop again with more snow to start the new year.

ALT for quoted post: Screenshots of two of Chris' Tableau visualizations. The first shows this year's daily snowdepth readings for 5 regional weather stations as coloured lines overlaid on shaded areas representing the historical min/quartiles/max. At the start of December we had very little snow, but now most readings are well beyond the historical max for the day & close to all time max accumulation. The second viz has the snowdepth graphs separated into a chart with each station in a column and each year (since fall 2010) in a row.

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@AmeliasBrain This is the path to our bird feeder currently. Deepest it’s been in many years. Should be interesting as our big snow days are often in February and March.

@Chigaze @AmeliasBrain
My balcony

@EllenInEdmonton @Chigaze @AmeliasBrain

Other than the sudden swing above zero and the rainfall (srsly, TODAY we had some rain that hit 'red' volume on #EnvironmentCanada's weather radar???!?) I've been enjoying the heck out of freshly drifting memories of youthful snowfall and childhood play.

Hopefully we'll continue to have some proper winter for years to come! ️️️

#yegwx

@likelyjanlukas The snow I love and we need a lot of more it really. It’s still really dry overall. Enough snow to affect the summer fire season would be great.

The freezing rain I can do without.

@EllenInEdmonton @AmeliasBrain

@Chigaze @likelyjanlukas @AmeliasBrain
I really love a snowy winter, and I've been quite happy with the quantity that we got in December. Then, the melting and freezing rain that we had this week would have wreaked havoc if it were a regular work and school week. I really appreciate living in an area where all of the businesses get out and shovel in the mornings, so that I've been able to walk in the snow without any difficulty.
Extra bonus is that my balcony freezer has functioned perfectly this month! I brought in my bone broth yesterday to redistribute.

@EllenInEdmonton @Chigaze @AmeliasBrain

I'm glad your sidewalks are clear! Surprisingly, our landlords have been far more prompt than usual with snowclearing, and definitely have done a better job than most winters.

Alas, it's still not nearly timely enough for anyone who requires wheeled mobility devices and of course, random households along the way are sometimes even worse.

Every time I feel well enough to shop at this time of the year, I feel like I'm buying for the entire winter* just to ensure I can make it through a long stint of no snow removal (and I'm on crutches, so technically CAN walk around but then have no hands for hauling said groceries inside).

*insofar as AISH's woefully not-updated-since-the-Notley-government can, given ongoing grocery and OTC medical items constantly rising in price.

@EllenInEdmonton @Chigaze @AmeliasBrain

PS: I'm glad your balcony 'freezer' did as needed! Hope the bone broth is great. ️

Quasi-related, I had my first-ever bone marrow #biopsy recently. Turns out the specialist doing the biopsy had never had anyone ask (as I did), "With times being the way they are these days, do humans have enough #BoneMarrow to bother eating our neighbours if things get really bad?"

He laughed but also said he didn't know … and while this was (on my part) entirely intended to be a profession-related quirky bit of trivia to glean, now I am fretting over whether I should risk a browser search to satisfy my curiousity!

@likelyjanlukas @Chigaze @AmeliasBrain
Browser searches are very much not what they used to be, so I doubt that your question would be answered that way. My bone broth was excellent, and I used some of it to make my annual black-eyed peas dish for good luck in the New Year. I never have the collard greens to go with it, since they're rarely in our grocery stores, assuming that I'd be willing to shop in one during the holiday season. But, the beans were great, flavoured with an excellent smoked turkey wing from K&K Grocers.

@likelyjanlukas @Chigaze @AmeliasBrain
Browser searches are very much not what they used to be, so I doubt that your question would be answered that way. My bone broth was excellent, and I used some of it to make my annual black-eyed peas dish for good luck in the New Year. I never have the collard greens to go with it, since they're rarely in our grocery stores, assuming that I'd be willing to shop in one during the holiday season. But, the beans were great, flavoured with an excellent smoked turkey wing from K&K Grocers.

@EllenInEdmonton For future reference: green pak choi (often labelled Shanghai style pak/bok choy around here) is pretty darn close to collard greens. Kale can also work. Or the outer leaves of darker green head cabbage (which you usually only see in summer). They're all variants of the same cabbage species, you just need a version with leaves tough enough to hold up to cooking.

@AmeliasBrain @EllenInEdmonton

That's wild! I never really thought about that sort of substitution before (then again I don't cook -- but your desceiption reminds me of when I use Y instead of X when I'm making something because Y has the same properties of X so I know it will work just fine ).

I don't know what it is like now but I remember visiting a major grocery store in Indiana once in the 1990s and was stunned at how most of the fruits and veggies looked like here in the 1970s -- zero cultural foods of any sort, as far as I could tell.