pic: It's cold in Canada

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Hey! No posting those kind of pictures til November! What are you trying to do. incite panic! The snow might actually think we all in the NOrth miss it and come back!

Maybe it's a warning about what volcano eruptions can do to summer and in the Northeast and Canada.

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

Year Without a Summer
...
In May of 1816, however, frost killed off most of the crops that had been planted, and in June two large snowstorms in eastern Canada and New England resulted in many human deaths. Nearly a foot of snow was observed in Quebec City in early June. In July and August, lake and river ice were observed as far south as Pennsylvania. Rapid, dramatic temperature swings were common, with temperatures sometimes reverting from normal or above-normal summer temperatures as high as 95°F (35°C) to near-freezing within hours.

[GaryVoshol]

Why is only one car ice-encrusted? Why is the car in front relatively clear - just a light dusting of snow or light covering of ice? And why are the steps and railings in the background clear?

Sorry to put a damper on all the fun boys and girls, but it looks to me like this is a set-up.

[Steve W]

Originally Posted by GaryV1188

Why is only one car ice-encrusted? Why is the car in front relatively clear - just a light dusting of snow or light covering of ice? And why are the steps and railings in the background clear?

Sorry to put a damper on all the fun boys and girls, but it looks to me like this is a set-up.

Not likely a set up. If you look at the way the snow and ice are on the car you will notice that they balls have rolled toward the sidewalk. This means that the car has been sitting a while and the the snow plow blew snow onto the car. You will also notice the ice at the rear touches and melds into the ground which verifies that the car has been sitting.

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by Steve W

Not likely a set up. If you look at the way the snow and ice are on the car you will notice that they balls have rolled toward the sidewalk. This means that the car has been sitting a while and the the snow plow blew snow onto the car. You will also notice the ice at the rear touches and melds into the ground which verifies that the car has been sitting.

I meant set-up in the sense that someone has sprayed water over this specific car, that it's not a natural phenomonon.

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by GaryV1188

I meant set-up in the sense that someone has sprayed water over this specific car, that it's not a natural phenomonon.

No, I think it is real. There is definitely a heavier amount of ice on the driver's side of the car, which is facing the road. If the road was covered in slush, but the air temperature was below freezing, when the plow truck drove past the slush would be sprayed onto the side of the car where it would freeze on contact.

[Dylan]

Holy cow!
I'd have a fit if that was sitting in front of my house.

Hi,

Hopefully I didn't put this in the wrong thread but I am still new to this site.

The pic is real, it is actually a frame-grab off my video (sony dsr-570 dvcam), it was a very cold night....a watermain broke and cars went splashing through it all night and the spray made for a secure ultimate anti-theft coating of 4-6 inches of ice and there were three cars coated by morning....stuck right to the ground actually

Too bad I didnt make a frame-grab of the one car owner who tried to chip away the ice with a pick-axe.....he swung too hard and well.....went right through the front left fender.

I actually heard the call on the radio scanner, the police were called as the works dept needed the cars removed so they could fix the watermain break, not much the cops could do, there was not even a spot on that car to place a parking ticket and no easy way to move the car with a tow truck.

was quite funny actually.

mark

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[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by STORMCENTRE

Too bad I didnt make a frame-grab of the one car owner who tried to chip away the ice with a pick-axe.....he swung too hard and well.....went right through the front left fender.

Ahhh, it'll melt by August...

[ScoutingNerd175]

Originally Posted by Don Rotolo

Ahhh, it'll melt by August...

But by September it will be snowing again...

[lukevanoort]

One of my uncles came down from Canada this weekend to play golf, and he was telling me what a warm winter they had, seems warm is relative. (Like over 30 degrees C (86 F) being a "heat wave day")

[Adam Shapiro]

Originally Posted by lukevanoort

One of my uncles came down from Canada this weekend to play golf, and he was telling me what a warm winter they had, seems warm is relative. (Like over 30 degrees C (86 F) being a "heat wave day")

I was in Ithaca all winter and I can definitely attest to it being a warm winter. We had one week where it was 55-70 F the whole week! What I found strange was that they got a lot more snow at home in New Jersey than we did here all winter.