SPRING NOT INSTALLED YET

Moon and Venus over Toronto's  extreme cold morning sky
 Feb 27 2014 

Southern Ontario in Canada experiencing one of the longest and worst winter for this time of year. Wind chill alarm has already issued by Canada Environment. According to the weather prediction the temperature tonight will goes down to  minus 23 C. just before dawn which with wind chill might be felt  minus 30 C. High pressure and attributed very cold polar air will remain effective over the region  for another week, and gradually will warm ups or moved out by a warmer front by end of next week.Snow squall already caused a chain accident on Highway 400 north of Toronto which involved 100 cars... and more snow are coming.

 Maybe there is no spring for Canada this year.

Polar Effect

Coldest day of Toronto Jan.7 2014 

Toronto,today experienced a very low temperature. Very cold high pressure which originated from north pole is responsible of such a cold day.
Extreme cold weather in my location reached to -22 c with wind chill - 29. In some places temperature went down to -24 C with wind chill factor -40 C.

Below picture taken early in the morning. Above picture of the city taken Jan.7 2014 at 5:30 pm.Temperature is around -17 C with wind chill -24 C.

Torontonians awakened by Frost Quake

An earth quake might be triggered by various factors. A volcano, a movement deep inside the earth layers, a movement around a subduction zone may result in an earth quake. But in Toronto some people heard a very loud bang last night (early morning around 2-3 am)Jan 3rd 2014 which is related to extreme cold weather and recent ice storm.  It looks it happened before  north of Toronto at the end of December 2013. The cause of the big bang is not earth tectonic but frozen earth. As a result of a sudden deep freeze inside a dry ground, ice expands and cracks. Extreme cold weather continues for 3 days and temperature wend down to -23 C in my balcony weather station in East York Toronto.Northern areas such as Richmond hills experienced -28 C. Temperature at the moment (around 1 pm) is -18 C. With the wind chill the temperature  feels like -27 C. Such an extreme cold weather happened years ago in 1981.So a very cold ice expands and water from surface penetrates inside the dry soil and freeze inside the ground below. Frozen ground expands but doesn't have enough room for its expansion. This circumstance results in a shallow cracks in ground and surrounding rock. Geologists called this phenomena Cryoseism which may happen inside a glacier or a frozen ground. Some Torontonians not only heard it but also felt it. They called police and complained a gunshot or earth movement.

Courtesy Citynews Toronto