Congratulations to all Earth Hour participants: it was a raging success

[pmcleanj]

Temperature here fell to -12 overnight, and five inches of snow have fallen with more coming down constantly.;)

[norbie]

Temperature here fell to -12 overnight, and five inches of snow have fallen with more coming down constantly.;)
Yes it was, and it all started in Sydney.
So what happened, did the -12 affect in any way the earth hour shut down?

[pmcleanj]

Yes it was, and it all started in Sydney.
So what happened, did the -12 affect in any way the earth hour shut down?

I heard about the events in Sydney, with even the famous Opera House turning out its lights. I'm wondering how that would work -- presumably there was no performance at the time? Because we were at the ballet at 20:00 here, and the ballet went on as expected: the houselights went down but the footlights and spots stayed up.

Our favourite restaurant turned out the lights (in the dining room, not the kitchen or Occupational Health and Safety would have had words with them!) and offered patrons candles to see their food. I thought that sounded like it would have been fun.

I was making a joke about the -12 temperature: even here in the frozen north that's unusually cold for the end of March, and snow-flurries are usually over well before now. I know there's no cause-and-effect relationship, but it's kind of a nice coincidence that the very day after the world does something to address global warming, we get a sudden abnormal cold snap. Nice -- except for having to shovel snow off the walk this morning.

[Inside Edge]

Yes, we were rewarded with snow/hail that evening. Sunny since then, although unseasonally chilly.

[pmcleanj]

Now we are a third through April; and it is snowing again. In fact it looks like about 20cm of snow over the last two-and-a-half hours. Heavy, wet, snow: the kind that breaks tree-branches and pulls down power lines and turns freeways into parking lots. Along with fog, limiting visibility to a couple hundred metres.

By this afternoon they're predicting rainfall, thunderstorms by this evening, and warning that we'll need unhats and UV protection by tomorrow.

(This isn't climate change, though, this is life on the prairies. Crazy climate)

[TomUK]

Was snowing here the other day too. Really don't get how people can deny this whole climate change business when it's snowing blooming mid April!