To Delight of Snowmobilers, Snowshoers & Skiers Winter has Arrived!

Weather, it's a funny thing.

If you listen to my parents and their parents you'll hear stories of them walking to school fearing electrocution from the power lines that were even with the snow drifts that they were using as sidewalks!

I am like most a little obsessed with the weather, checking updates, radar images, downloading the latest app, and of course the checking the webcams.(Try them people say Facebook is addictive it's nothing like getting hooked on the local weather cam lol).

But being obsessed and actually knowing what all these different weather trends mean is a different matter.

What I can say is this: I live on the Northern most tip of Cape Breton Island and in my lifetime have seen drastic changes in weather related events. For instance only two years ago we did not see a piece of drift ice in the Gulf of St Lawrence, a phenomena the Dept of Fisheries said they had not seen in the last 100 years.

Spring and rain seem to go right into a very short summer now that includes a 2 week blast of heat everyone complains about(because people quickly forget for some reason that it had just rained for 2 months straight!), yet on the bright side for those who enjoy fall it seems that this is the season in our area that has faired off the best.

We have beautiful mild falls that last well past the official date of winters arrival in December.

Which leads me to winter, this year our winter doesn't seem to want to come, to the joy of some and the sorrow of others.But finally to the delight of the snowmobilers, snowshoers and skiers some snow arrived last night.

Only yesterday friends went for a walk up a local trail leading to the top of a mountain and there was no snow to be found in the woods.

But like I said that changed last night so I hope everyone who is snowmobiling across Money Point Mountain or cross country skiing in Cape North this weekend enjoy it because the long range forecast shows some rain coming.