Winter Arrived Yesterday

FTLComm - Tisdale - Monday, November 26, 2001

The demarcation between fall and winter is not a subjective decision. There is, what weather analysts describe as a "Quasi-stationary Front" this line dangles across the Northern portion of the this continent so that today it runs from South of Edmonton across to Brandon. On the North side of this line is cold arctic air and a stationary high pressure area. South of this front is always a mixing zone that experiences warm damp air from the Pacific condensing up against the front and producing precipitation, fog and sometimes freezing rain as much as two hundred miles in front of the cold front.

all of these pictures were taken this morning

On Saturday we were well inside of that leading edge with the very worst affects well to the South of us from Davidson to Indian Head where travel was almost impossible. But from Saskatoon to Tisdale there was snow and some fog patches then on Saturday night the front passed over us and the temperature which had been hovering around -2 dropped to -15 and that good friends was the end of fall. This is winter. We in Tisdale have not received

much snow, just an inch or two but we will have to like this stuff because it will be with us until spring. But as Michael Townsend pointed out some weeks ago not everyone fears or trembles at the thought of winter. With only an inch or two of snow someone has got their snow machine running and made a few passes over this field