Merry Christmas from Denver

[burns]

On Saturday 25 December 2004 10:13, Terence McCarthy wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 07:00:06 -0800
>
> Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:
> > Dartmoor has a rather nice website. Congratulation on the snow. Hope you
> > [all] have a great day.
>
> Thanks, Ken, it's snowing hard here now!

We have had snow off and on over the past 2 weeks. It was getting set to be  a 
picture-postcard-perfect Christmas when we had a mild spell come up from the 
US and bring a day of rain with it. This was followed by a return to winter 
temperatures with avengence - we had a flash freeze, with temperatures 
dropping 12 degrees Celsius in 1 hour (great shades of the film 'The Day 
After Tomorrow'!). We still have some snow left, although it is diminished 
and nowhere near as pretty. Instead, what we have been left with for Xmas is 
an icy frozen mess. The temp overnight last night here in the Ottawa Valley 
was minus 30 Celsius (22 below zero Fahrenheit).

Here's a picture of our parliament buildings downtown with what snow remains. 
If you look at night, there are usually a lot of Xmas lights.

http://www.parliamenthill.gc.ca/text/hillcam_e.html

Merry Christmas to all.

-- 
burns