Snapshot: Weather

The weather in Toronto is rather cold, although the city is situated more in the south than e.g. Prague. The weekend I arrived there was a huge snow storm. Actually it just stopped snowing the day before I arrived, so even though I didn't see any snow falling nor my plane was delayed, there was a good deal of snow in streets.
You can have a look at some photos in the previous post.

Me and Cindy (VPOGX in @ Toronto) in their campus
(the picture was taken during my second day in Toronto)

Czech flashback
I have to admit I was originally a little bit worried about the weather when preparing myself for the trip. The weather forecast indicated temperatures around -10°C. The first week was quite tough, especially when getting lost in the city centre at around midnight (temperatures fall down to ca. -15°C) and not having my hat (I forgot it in Jablonec), not even a map (I thought I wouldn't need it:)) - these were moments that made me just swear aloud not caring about other pedestrians:)

However, I got used to it and let myself enjoy the good old winter. Everything around just resembled the winter I'd known from Prague or Jablonec around 3 years ago. Since then we didn't have a decent winter there and I'm not sure how it would be in the future.

Weather can be tricky sometimes:)

Is it spring?
I asked local people how do they recognize that a spring is coming. It is the same as in the Czech Republic - birds start to sing. And it actually happened few days ago. During the last week, the temperatures considerably increased, too. For example right now it is +12°C (usually it is around +5°C these days). Which means the spring has come! Check the current weather conditions below:

Czech corner
Pocasi si tu vazne uzivam, az na par extremnich pripadu se to tu pohybuje v prumeru okolo nuly (prvni tydny lehce (a nekdy i tezce) pod, ted zase lehce (a nekdy i tezce) nad. Predevsim v te prvni polovine meho pobytu hral stezejni roli maly radiator, ktery mam ve svem pokoji a ktery jede neustale na 100% vykonu. Hned prvni den jsem ho presunul od okna tesne vedle stolku a jeste k tomu nosil svetr i mikinu zaroven. Predevcirem jsem poprve spal v kratekm rukavu a dokonce jsem i nechal vetrat pres noc (kaminka ale stale topila, zapomnel jsem je vypnout... coz bylo zrovna pikantni, protoze ten den probihala Earth Hour:))
Trend je myslim zrejmy, zacina opet stredoevropska nuda:)

Vsiml jsem si tady jeste jedne zajimavosti. Jak jsem uvedl vyse, nechal jsem si v Jablonci cepici a chystal jsem se tu proto nejakou poridit. Ale to neni jen tak... mistni lide cepice zasadne nenosi a v kramech uz jsou jarni kolekce. Nakonec jsem tedy nakup presouval a presouval az prislo jaro a nejak se to vyresilo, resp. to nejak vysumelo.

Cepice beru, tu v Praze vetsinou taky nenosim, ale oni tu chodi i bez saly! Ne tedy vsichni jako v pripade cepice, ale neni vubec zadny problem mijet v hlubokych mrazech kolemjdouci vsech ras a pohlavi s vyrazne odhalenymi dekolty. Vsak oni na to jednou doplati:)