December - California vs, Canada

[OC Richard]

if you're in Windsor Ontario, and look across the border to Detroit Michigan... you're facing north.

Flipped the other way, it's a trivia question few people around here get right:

If you travel directly south from Detroit Michigan, what's the first foreign country you come to?

[Moses]

Flipped the other way, it's a trivia question few people around here get right:

If you travel directly south from Detroit Michigan, what's the first foreign country you come to?

Yes! Living here that is always a fun one. It was funny when we had relatives joke about how they would travel "Up North" when they visited

[sailortats]

I must admit that this thread turned out completely different from the way I expected. I started out with picture of a man on a paddle board wearing a kilt. Not one comment has been made about that pic even though I doubt that paddleboarding in a kilt is a common occurrence. Not complaining just commenting

[OC Richard]

I don't understand why everyone thinks Canada is just the great white North and everybody ends there sentence with "eh".......I'm here to tell you, what you think of Canada, as far as weather goes, is a Myth.

For sure BC has a variety of micro-climates which are very interesting, like the Okanagan Valley with its Mediterranean climate and wine industry.

The other thing is the coastal climate which stretches from BC down into Mexico, which is why you can have a places like San Francisco with moist cool weather, and all the way down to San Diego, and further.

Many Americans are thinking about central Canada which gets very cold in winter and very hot in summer.

It's amusing, sometimes, at my workplace (Disneyland) to hear Albertans do the mental calculations and come to completely wrong guesses as to our Southern California weather. So they'll be here in mid-winter and it will be around 70 degrees and they'll do some calculating and think that our summers are incredibly hot, or they'll be here in summer and it will be around 70 degrees and they'll do some calculating and think that our winters are incredibly cold.

"No," we'll say "it's usually about like this." (EDIT: Today, Christmas Eve, it was... wait for it... 70 degrees.)

About the "eh" many Canadians say that, many say "hey", many say neither. What gives them away are their pronunciation of "sorry" and "out" and distinctive words like "mum" and distinctive phrases like "is that right?" "right on!" and "holy moly".

[OC Richard]

Not one comment has been made about that pic

I did notice he's wearing the California tartan.

I will point that the thread title is "December California vs Canada" and as threads go along later contributors see the title but might not see the original post, especially once the thread goes past one page.

[Father Bill]

The "Birdie Annex" today.

[OC Richard]

This tells the tale

[tokareva]

Highway thru Hell is one of my favorites,eh.

[Steve Ashton]

Annual average temperatures in Victoria, BC Canada.

High °F	Low °F		High °C	Low °C
47	39	January	9	4
49	38	February	9	3
53	40	March	11	4
58	42	April	14	6
64	47	May	18	8
70	51	June	21	10
75	54	July	24	12
74	53	August	24	12
69	50	September	20	10
58	45	October	15	7
51	41	November	11	5
47	39	December	9	4
60	45	Year	15	7

Our annual average precipitation is-
148 days of at least .008 inches of rain or 278 days without any rain.
We average 27.8 inches or 705 cm of rain per year.
Miami, Florida's average annual rainfall is 61.9 inches

[OC Richard]

Ah yes that exceptionally even and mild weather we on the Left Coast enjoy.

It was 80f/27c here yesterday, by the way, at a time when a big chunk of North America is in a deep freeze.