Originally posted by skylineGTR_guy
65 are you nuts!?!?!? Thats like jacket season right there! no thank you, give me 100+ weather any day.
Klos is talking about pool temp. as in the temperature of the water inside the pool, not the outside air.
and if any of you really give a ****....................heres todays article
THE freak storm that buried the southern Prairies from Calgary to Kenora under heavy, wet snow for two days finally petered out last night.
As Winnipeggers started to dig out from a record May snowfall, hundreds of motorists stranded along the Trans-Canada Highway expected the end of the storm will let them get moving this morning.
Environment Canada meteorologist Jay Anderson said the last wisps of snow and freezing rain should have fallen overnight. There's no snow or rain in the forecast for the next few days, he said, but the sky will still be gloomy.
"There's a lot of snow on the ground and that's going to keep the thermometer in the single digits for the next few days," Anderson said.
"It'll be foggy, cloudy and damp for the next few days."
He said Winnipeg officially received 31 centimetres of snow Tuesday, breaking the previous record of 21.6 cm on May 1, 1967 as the greatest amount of snow for one day in May. But he said Kenora received more snow and rain, a total of 80 mm, compared to 30 mm of precipitation in Winnipeg. Large amounts of rainfall were also recorded in Morden (51.2 mm) and Emerson (41 mm).
Temperatures in Winnipeg today should hit 4 C and are expected to get as warm as 10 tomorrow and Saturday. Earlier forecasts called for warmer weather tomorrow, but Anderson said the long-range forecast originates out of Montreal and staff there are not aware of the lingering snow that will cool temperatures.
The end of the storm is good news for Winnipeg resident Joanne Miller and her father, Leslie, who spend last night sleeping in the gym of the Virden Junior High School, along with 60 other Greyhound bus passengers.
"They said the highway could reopen (this morning) or later this afternoon but we're hoping for the morning," Miller said last night during a telephone interview.
In Virden, 300 semi-trailer trucks were lined up four-lanes wide in a four-kilometre stretch. It was a scene repeated at the other end of the Trans-Canada, at Headingley, where west-bound trucks sat bumper to bumper for three kilometres between John Blumberg Golf Course and the Headingley weigh station.
West-bound truckers and other vehicles were also reported stranded near Portage la Prairie, Austin, Brandon and near the Saskatchewan border.
MARC GALLANT / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
RCMP stop traffic at Headingley, a scene repeated all along the snow-clogged Trans-Canada Highway.
Don Scribner, leaning back in the driver's seat, his feet up on the huge dashboard, said he'd never seen such a long lineup in more than 30 years of truck driving. "This is the worst I've seen in 34 years," said Scribner, en route from Steinbach to Brandon for Big Freight Systems Inc. "The snow plows were just riding up on top of the slush and couldn't clear anything out."
Improving road conditions permitted the opening yesterday of the eastbound lane from Portage to Winnipeg. However, RCMP weren't allowing traffic to go the other way because they feared traffic would get bottled up in Portage.
Several long-haul truckers were critical of the provincial Highways Department, who they said were waiting for Mother Nature rather than using snow plows.
"You go through the Rockies out in Alberta and B.C. where they have plenty of blizzards and you don't see this," Mel Prince, of Kelowna, said while waiting at Nick's Inn in Headingley. "Maintaining the roads, they just don't do it here. Manitoba and Saskatchewan are the worst."
Clayton Gording, vice-president of operations for Reimer Express Lines Ltd., said the province seemed to be slow in getting plows out.
"There seems to be a reluctance to clean the roads," said Gording. "They seem to be waiting for it to melt."
Meanwhile, it was nearly business as usual at the Winnipeg International Airport, where flights in and out of Winnipeg were back on schedule.
A number of flights had been cancelled Tuesday.
Phones were ringing off the hook at many Winnipeg tree removal companies as the heavy, wet snow felled trees and snapped off branches. "On every street, there are tree limbs down somewhere," said Greg Lajoie, owner of Allpro Tree Service. "I've never seen anything like this before."
The blast of snow and freezing rain is unlikely to cause flooding in southern Manitoba, according to the province's water stewardship department.
The department anticipates the moisture will easily soak into the soil. Only minor rises were expected on the Red and Assiniboine rivers.
Snowfall warnings were lifted for the Brandon area last night but remained in place for Dauphin and Swan River.
The storm caught just about everyone by surprise. Staff at the Westgate Inn Motel in Portage had to turn people away when the storm first hit.
"We were full up," said manager Rollande Roberge. "Some of the people staying work in Portage but live in Winnipeg and couldn't get home."
Cpl. Larry Dalman of Headingley Traffic Services said the safety of motorists far outweighed the inconvenience to drivers.
"If we allowed traffic through and if collisions occur, we're not doing our job," Dalman said. "Our job is to protect the motoring public. But you expect the odd grumbling at the barricade."
Bob Dolyniuk, general manager of the Manitoba Trucking Association, said his office was flooded with calls yesterday from frustrated members. He said part of the problem is it's not clear under what conditions snow plows are allowed to go out and clean the highway.
Canadians 
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