Weather: Yikes, Again
Dec. 28th, 2025 06:55 pmOttawa City Hall has declared a Significant Weather Event tonight.
Checking In - 4 March 2025
Mar. 4th, 2025 07:26 amGood morning, and good luck.
Especially to friends and acquaintances on the eastern coast of Australia at the moment because of Tropical Storm Alfred.
Especially to friends and acquaintances on the eastern coast of Australia at the moment because of Tropical Storm Alfred.
Checking In - 24 July 2024
Jul. 24th, 2024 07:15 amWe're expecting rain later today and tonight. Good thing that I've got therapy/community commitments that will keep me in the house after work.
Some News of Interest - 14 Jan. 2024
Jan. 14th, 2024 09:24 am1. David Chase fears that the end of long-form TV has arrived. I'd like him to be able to celebrate being wrong.
2. Peter Capaldi wants to make sure that entertainment talent from the lower classes remains discoverable and supported. He's absolutely right about that.
3. I got through the latest storm okay. Just so you know.
4. A lot of people miss Ed Broadbent.
5. Looks like a propagandist for Reichsters had a hand in Claudine Gay's problems at Harvard.
2. Peter Capaldi wants to make sure that entertainment talent from the lower classes remains discoverable and supported. He's absolutely right about that.
3. I got through the latest storm okay. Just so you know.
4. A lot of people miss Ed Broadbent.
5. Looks like a propagandist for Reichsters had a hand in Claudine Gay's problems at Harvard.
News Notes: 13 August 2023
Aug. 13th, 2023 09:50 am1. Thwaites' Glacier is no more.
2. I'm not living in any of the affected houses. I've learned from my circles of family and friends, though, that basement window wells are...problematic as well during such rainfall.
3. Another side effect of recent rainfall here. One of the buildings affected houses a past employer of mine. I want to check in with them on Monday morning out of concern.
4. And yeah, we may have voted badly last year.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/residents-councillors-flash-flood-1.6933278
2. I'm not living in any of the affected houses. I've learned from my circles of family and friends, though, that basement window wells are...problematic as well during such rainfall.
3. Another side effect of recent rainfall here. One of the buildings affected houses a past employer of mine. I want to check in with them on Monday morning out of concern.
4. And yeah, we may have voted badly last year.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/residents-councillors-flash-flood-1.6933278
Ottawa: After the Barrhaven Tornado
Jul. 13th, 2023 05:23 pmNot my neighbourhood. Friends live there, so I've been worrying a bit for them.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/tornado-ottawa-barrhaven-july-13-1.6905782
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/tornado-ottawa-barrhaven-july-13-1.6905782
Ottawa: Open Air Fire Ban in April?
Apr. 13th, 2023 08:37 amToday is going to be "no jackets required" weather. And more...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/record-breaking-temperature-april-13-heat-ottawa-1.6808107
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/record-breaking-temperature-april-13-heat-ottawa-1.6808107
Job Search: Resumed
Apr. 5th, 2023 02:07 pmI'm e-mailing out resumés and checking job boards again. Networking, too. Yes, attending to this account is something I include in my job search diary under "Networking/Research/Promotion". Yes, I have to maintain a job search diary. It may be the law re: (un)employment insurance, but it's also become a good idea in itself in order to maintain some degree of self-discipline or self-regulation.
The weather today is good cause as well to stick close to my desk in the basement. Freezing rain, thunder and lightning...and I don't envy anyone who has to be outside for any reason today in Ottawa and Gatineau. Tomorrow, Environment Canada tells me, will be somewhat better. I don't expect to be in much need of cleats by the time I go out for whatever the day's travels have to be.
The weather today is good cause as well to stick close to my desk in the basement. Freezing rain, thunder and lightning...and I don't envy anyone who has to be outside for any reason today in Ottawa and Gatineau. Tomorrow, Environment Canada tells me, will be somewhat better. I don't expect to be in much need of cleats by the time I go out for whatever the day's travels have to be.
The "hamlet" - I'm having trouble thinking of a community of a thousand people as a "hamlet", as it seems more a small town - is a trivia point in the back story of Due South's central character Benton Fraser, being one of the communities in which his parents and grandparents jointly raised him. It's also a very real place, the most northern community in Canada that you can reach by road these days.
"Tuk", as it's known to many of its local people, is also one of many places across the planet now imperilled by climate derangement.
"Tuk", as it's known to many of its local people, is also one of many places across the planet now imperilled by climate derangement.
Climate Derangement: A Local Note
Nov. 7th, 2022 08:07 amYesterday, Ottawa-Gatineau experienced the third-warmest recorded November 6th in its known history.
https://twitter.com/YOW_Weather/status/1589322207007744000
Yikes!
https://twitter.com/YOW_Weather/status/1589322207007744000
Yikes!
I hope you're all safe from Hurricane Fiona.
Post-Tornado Watch
Jun. 16th, 2022 08:04 pmI think we're safe enough for one more night now.
Star Trek: SNW in less than an hour from now as I type this...
Star Trek: SNW in less than an hour from now as I type this...
Another Tornado Watch in Ottawa-Gatineau
Jun. 16th, 2022 12:49 pmHere we go again, per advisory from Environment Canada.
Hoping for good outcomes...and ducking into the basement again.
Hoping for good outcomes...and ducking into the basement again.
Hotter Saturday
May. 14th, 2022 12:44 pmI've done enough walking for today this morning between library and shopping errands. Heatwave will likely break overnight and tomorrow with the expected rainfall, but meantime, I'm not planning to do any more outdoor broiling here.
About that snow storm
Jan. 17th, 2022 07:10 pmWe're still under winter storm warning conditions here in Ottawa-Gatineau, but I tend to think the worst is over and done for our cities. The storm's broken a century-old record, per Environment Canada and CBC News, and that the effects of this so-called "Saskatchewan Screamer" have reached all the way to Florida.
If I'm connecting dots that shouldn't be connected, I hope you'll forgive me. Climate/weather news like this tends to drive me to it more and more. Me and mine are mostly okay, and I am grateful for this aspect of this current "work from home" job that kept me safe enough today.
More as it comes to mind.
If I'm connecting dots that shouldn't be connected, I hope you'll forgive me. Climate/weather news like this tends to drive me to it more and more. Me and mine are mostly okay, and I am grateful for this aspect of this current "work from home" job that kept me safe enough today.
More as it comes to mind.
Swings of Weather, Again
Dec. 15th, 2021 01:49 pmRight now, we've got snowfall kicking back into gear in Ottawa. Over the next day, we're told to expect swings back and forth between snow and freezing rain, dancing on both sides of the "freezing" mark, and tomorrow we go up to 13ºC, with a 40% chance of further precipitation.
Still keeping my senses working...
Still keeping my senses working...
Noting the Weather of 19 November 2021
Nov. 19th, 2021 01:15 pmWe've gone from sun to snow today in Ottawa-Gatineau. This feels right for here and now, today.
How long we hold onto that...?
How long we hold onto that...?
Looking at this for a few minutes:
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2021/09/electric-cars-have-hit-inflection-point/620233/?utm_source=feed
I didn't think things were moving this quickly on the global scale in terms of cars and trucks. Yes, the manufacturing process is still messy as Hell. But are we making progress of some sort here? I think the answer to that question is "yes".
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armiphlage, autopope, you might have some informed context to add here...? Anyone else?
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2021/09/electric-cars-have-hit-inflection-point/620233/?utm_source=feed
I didn't think things were moving this quickly on the global scale in terms of cars and trucks. Yes, the manufacturing process is still messy as Hell. But are we making progress of some sort here? I think the answer to that question is "yes".
armiphlage, autopope, you might have some informed context to add here...? Anyone else?Checking In - 26 August 2021
Aug. 26th, 2021 07:44 pmAnd the heat warnings keep on keeping on hereabouts. We might expect some rain on Saturday. Maybe. It's not a certainty yet.
Household's been quieter today than earlier in the week, for which I am grateful.
Expecting some entertainment from Lower Decks later tonight.
Managed to remember to check my browser bookmarks for websites I haven't looked at in months for job search purposes, which was good.
Not feeling doomed at the moment, which is also good.
Household's been quieter today than earlier in the week, for which I am grateful.
Expecting some entertainment from Lower Decks later tonight.
Managed to remember to check my browser bookmarks for websites I haven't looked at in months for job search purposes, which was good.
Not feeling doomed at the moment, which is also good.
