Can't top those pics Peter, stunning stuff for the first week in September! Even at 4500ft it's still extreme to have snowfall in early September followed by a warm-up of 20c or so within a couple of days.

I can't beat those pics and weather in Dundas but we had our own cold front come through last week that dropped the temps from a humid 23c at YHM at 5am in Thunderstorms to just 14c by 8am, 9c in 3hrs was impressive in itself.

More fall like weather since, only 12c on Saturday  temps moderating back to the mid to high teens this week. Across the board, excepting a few spots, most of N America in a cooler pattern.

Still awaiting our first landfall Atlantic hurricane of the 2014 season, the tropics have stirred but as of now most of the storms have curved NE towards the open Atlantic.

Take Care folks

Hi folks,

Graeme, i'm good thanks. Wow i had to resurrect this from page 7 of the threads. It's probably one of the longest serving threads on TWO! Normal life getting in the road of the fun stuff like weather over the last few months, hopefully with the winter approaching we can get this back to where it used to be!

Talking about winter, after very mild weather this week across Ontario with temps upto 21c here in the Hamilton area, a halloween horror of sorts is coming in the passing of a cold front bringing the first real taste of anything wintery this weekend as temps drop to 3-6c range and there could be the odd flurry about on Saturday too.

That'll do it for now, hope everyone is well? Jays season finished Graeme, Leafs just starting - the rolling sports cycle for Torontorians continues!

Take Care

Quick update from the weekend. We did indeed see our first snowflakes of the season on Saturday morning across the Golden Horseshoe, not settling snow though, roads and pathways just too warm with no ground cooling involved it quickly melted. Officially YHM recorded just 0.6cm of snow on Saturday, it's a start right?

Weather now recovered back to regular values we saw most of October, currently 13c. Talk of a more significant cooldown and even snow next week. Stay tuned for that!

Take Care

Hi Stewart,

I'm well thanks. Same as you, real life interfering with posting time but I'll try and make more of an effort now silly season is fast approaching! 

All indications (including an abrupt u-turn from mild to cold from the ECM long ranger http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-blogs/anderson/weather-pattern-clues-into-early-december/36987553 ) point to an unusually cold spell in the US midwest, Great Lakes and NE, from Manitoba through Quebec. After last year's brutal winter in this region I can't imagine that's popular with most folks!

 The latest GFS run shows 850s for T.O. fall to -10 on Wednesday and remain in the -9 to -13c range through Monday, before the 'real' cold arrives from Tue 18th! It will chop and change of course but a couple of weeks of unusually cold weather for November looks a good bet. There should be multiple opportunities for snow events in various places, snow will break out in the Dakotas early next week and head east across the Midwest and into the Great Lakes, though likely to affect central Ontario rather than the Golden Horseshoe.

Meanwhile the big cities in the Prairies will see daytime highs in the -7c to -11c by this time, so well below normal for mid November. And of course (a modified form of) this Arctic air is heading your way Stewart with daytime readings in southern Ontario likely around, or just above freezing by late in the week.

Enjoy...must be age because I'm quite happy with 10c readings for the foreseeable!

Denver managed to go from +17.8c at 09:53 to 0.0c by 11:53 yesterday morning as a result of this cold front pushing south over the US. Not bad going really! In the 12 hour period from 09:53 to 21:53 the temperature dropped 28.4c to -10.6c 

Indeed! Dodge City, Kansas comfortably recorded a larger temperature range within 18 hours than I've recorded all year! 

http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-blogs/weathermatrix/polar-vortex-2-0-try-40-degrees-below-normal/37208440

Indeed - temps well below normal across parts of the Mid West, Western areas and some Southern parts of the US, but it does look like temps will recover to near normal eventually but not for 7-10 days time. So quite a lot of cold to get through.

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/MT8_Minneapolis_USA_ens.png

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/MT8_Chicago_USA_ens.png

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/MT8_Kansas_City_USA_ens.png

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/MT8_Nashville_USA_ens.png

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/MT8_Atlanta_USA_ens.png

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/MT8_New_York_USA_ens.png

18c at 9am here in Washington DC! - Didn't need to pack my coat and scarf after all!

Expect a high or 21c today before a max of 10c tomorrow.

Currently clear skies!

Currently -30C in parts of Wyoming! and it will probably get lower before sunrise. Funny to think the UK has never officially recorded a temp that low, yet it's not even Thanksgiving in the US or Winter yet.

http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KRWL/2014/11/13/DailyHistory.html

A freeze warning in effect for parts of Florida. http://classic.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=32531

And it's currently -10C in some areas of Texas with a -17C windchill. http://classic.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=79022

Morning folks, first appreciable snowfall for the Golden Horseshoe and Hamilton regions this morning upto Toronto too. Generally 2-5cm, 4.6cm recorded at YHM at Midnight. Some areas to the southeast of here down the Niagara Escarpment picked up lake-enhanced bands last evening and brought with it more depth, haven't seen official numbers yet but could be 4" (10cm) region.

Traffic coping well around here so far this morning, the main routes having been salted ground temps lowering after a cold few days in the lead up to this. We also got snow on Friday and flurries thru Saturday, nothing you could plough though until this morning.

Temps currently -2c, won't get above +1c today looking at a hard frost and -9c tonight. Winter has arrived folks stays all week for Southern Ontario with more snow possible on Wednesday.

Take Care

Another snow fall for Maine. About the 4th separate fall already this Autumn.

http://www.crownofmaine.com

I want to go back to Buffalo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6AhVnTGnRc

Stunning

We bypassed Buffalo on our way to Niagara Falls, but started that day at a motel in a small town on the New York Thruway called Batavia. Looks like Batavia are doing well out of the lake effect snow as well; here's a live streaming cam:

http://www.mygenesee.com/Webcam/tabid/81/Default.aspx

A frost right down into Northern Florida by tomorrow morning their time.  more than half the USA below freezing.