Ice Storm 2013

[motto]

That is so Jordan. When an aircraft rotates on take off it's because the pilot has eased/pulled/hauled back on the controls forcing the tail down. Things can and do go wrong at that point such as tail strike or tyre failure due to the aircraft being at its heaviest with hardly any fuel used (possibly way over its maximum landing weight).
Snow gently deposited on the upper surfaces would bear no relationship to flight induced stress loads.

David

[Hanno Spoelstra]

I hope the cold in your part of the world soon passes on. You can have some of our heat: at 8 deg. C average for January we are 5 deg. above the normal for this month. The record was last set in 1921, we are 1.1 deg. behind.

Take care!

H.

[Marc Montgomery]

With concern over damage seen in Toronto on the news, and throughout southern Ontario...I had to check on the secret hideout along the Rideau. Although lots of broken branches of trees along the 401..and some areas of massive forest damage..fortunately little damage at the hideout....and thankfully nothing fell on the plastic garages where some old green stuff is sleeping for the winter.

Skating which had been unbelievably magnificent prior to the first major snow dump of a couple weeks ago,(although no desire to skate for the kilometers of the lake system available) was down to acceptable due to the ice storm.
Note, with no water due to winter shutdown- using the outhouse was required..and at those temps was interesting...lowest was -30 early friday am.

[maple_leaf_eh]

And just to put a smile on everyone's faces, 6 Jan 14 could have a record of four different extreme weather warnings here in Eastern Ontario.

freezing rain - with plenty of deep puddles that have nowhere to drain
flash freeze - everything liquid becomes glare ice
high winds - weather fronts collide
extreme cold - bitter cold air slides in behind

There! We can get all our bitching about bad weather out of the way within 24hrs.

Issued: 7:17 AM EST Monday 6 January 2014

Flash freeze warning in effect

Wind chill warning in effect.

Today, 6 January Rain changing to a few flurries and ending early this afternoon then cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Wind southwest 30 km/h gusting to 60. Temperature falling to minus 8 this afternoon.

Tonight, 6 January Mainly cloudy. 60 percent chance of flurries this evening and after midnight. Wind southwest 30 km/h gusting to 60. Low minus 23. Wind chill minus 33.

[Harry Moon]

Yea it was down to Zero last night here in the Banana Belt of South Burnaby. Had to wait 5 minutes sipping my coffee to defrost the windshield. This keeps up I'll have to fork out for a scrapper, although a credit card works in a pinch.

[Harry Moon]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=15c_1389049384
I think this was Winnipeg, or more likely Saskatoon!

[motto]

No Harry, I'm sure it was Sascartoon.

David