Spots, having served time in Ottawa, I know that summer's lease has all too short a stay. We had the first snowfall in September, which didn't stay on the ground, but shows how cold it was getting. Snow was permanent from the beginning of November. The last fall was in May, which again was a late dump which didn't last. Snow melted in April.
So we had 9 months of snow one year.
Then summer, mosquitoes and black-flies arrive in force. Not to mention sweltering, steamy thunderstorm days when a hot, humid, clear blue sky simply goes black over and hour or so, and torrential rain, lightning and thunder rule for an hour or so, then the sky goes back to clear blue when the water has all fallen out. It happened fairly frequently [sufficiently to be a feature of the area].
Too cold for too long for us! We headed back to base. Here, we don't get a summer, but at least we don't get much of a winter either. It's just cold all year! We need some global warming. Another 5 degrees would be about right.
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