On Thursday afternoon, it took 1.75 hours to get home from work. The snow had hit Toronto pretty hard in the afternoon before the commute. As soon as we passed under the 427, the 401 opened up, the pavement was clear of snow and the sun trying to pop out was blinding to the eyes. The snow did eventually come to Mississauga. It took a colleague 3 hours to get to Jane/Bloor and it took Claudia 2 hours on the bus from Humber College to City Centre, usually a 1 hour ride.
Noticed that there was a Special Weather Statement in Effect by Environment Canada for Tuesday.
Apparently there is a rare weather event expected for Southern Ontario on Tuesday: a rainy day.
Typhoon Talas dumped record amounts of rain on Sunday in western and central Japan. The excess rain caused landslides in Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture.
Location of Tanabe.
Ever wonder how much rain has fallen in the last 7 days? I came across an web site that takes the guess work out of it, it is called Rain Caddy. All you do is enter your postal code and it will find the closest Environment Canada weather station and give you the results.
I updated the local weather display on the website, I replaced what I had (originally from the Environment Canada website) with a php script that pulls the same data from the EC website. The old one was flash based which didn’t work on the ipad.
