Snowy weather around the Atlantic

It snowed today here in Toronto. More interestingly, it also snowed back in Scotland, where I have just moved from, and where we are still trying to sell our house (yes, it's still up for grabs; see: http://www-n.aspc.co.uk/cgi-bin/public/LiveProperty/258469?ID=GDOIIBMF#p...). There are many stories associated with selling the house, but I will save those for a rainier day.

Anyway, we had a little snow here, just an inch or so, nothing much. I Skped Chris this morning, and she showed me the snow there - so it was kind of nice to both have snow at the same time. They don't get that much snow in the UK any more. Certainly not upwards of two metres, which is Toronto's count so far this winter.

But a few folks have asked me, are we sending the weather over? Yes! Sort of. Well, the weather systems here generally come up from the US (bah!) before dropping a load of snow here, then passing up to the Maritimes on the east coast of Canada, then heading north and east towards Greenland. On the other side of the Atlantic, the weather systems generally come south and east, more or less from Greenland, so the systems often to make their way over eventually, after a couple of weeks.

Don't blame us, though - they don't start here, we just get them before you do. In fact, you should be grateful, as otherwise there would have been an additional two metres worth of snow which had to drop somewhere. And in fact, we're due a bit more in the next couple of days...