Environment Canada says this winter weather isn't leaving
If you've been walking into work lately, and wondering when the end of this cold, snowy weather is coming... the answer is not good.
Environment Canada meteorologist David Phillips is thinking of our grandmother's youth, when winter was cold, and long.
He says this stuff is definitely lasting into mid February. "I think what we haven't seen is the duration, the intensity is there, but it's how long will this sucker carry on. I mean, this is hard to take, and it's almost a new set of impacts when it goes on for so long."
He's blaming cold air from the north, which doesn't necessarily mean more snow. There's a greater chance of snow when warmer air from the south mixes with the cold here.
"From the Arctic, from the poles, from Siberia, from Alaska, it's northerly air, and it's the bully of weather. It is heavy, dense, thick, it hugs the ground, and fills all the nooks and crannies, and you can't kick it out."
However, he says the good news is in Niagara, we've reached the "dead of winter", or the half way point.
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