Mover Mike

Continuing the theme of the previous post, The National Post announced

Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966.

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China is surviving its most brutal winter in a century.

In just the first two weeks of February, Toronto received 70 cm of snow, smashing the record of 66.6 cm for the entire month set back in the pre-SUV, pre-Kyoto, pre-carbon footprint days of 1950.

Gilles Langis, a senior forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service in Ottawa, says the Arctic winter has been so severe the ice has not only recovered, it is actually 10 to 20 cm thicker in many places than at this time last year.

The Calgary Herald has an article outlining a similar experience to Wallowa Lake: Record low water levels at Montreal Harbour, now with the heaviest snowpack in years, there are high hopes for the spring melt to raise water levels in the harbor and the Great Lakes. However, the worry is a cool spring stops melt and the snow just evaporates.