Weather

[leftylucas]

I just checked the long term forecast and in 1 weeks time the cold below normal spell should leave us and above normal temperatures will be here. The forecast is for temps to be above 0° by the 21st of Feb and getting significantly higher by the end of the month and even some rain to help the snow melt!! Let's keep our fingers crossed and perhaps our next local game will be in March.

[Ginker]

I saw this too.. Feb. 25th high of +5, 26th high of +7...

Common early spring

[Pinshark]

and so the wait officially begins.

[fireice]

I love the 14 day projected forecast at the Weather Network. Hopefully for it's right.

[NoBack]

lefty
its only been a week more than a month after our round at Vieux Moulins on jan 7th

got the shakes already??

imagine the guys that stopped playing in november

[Kilroy]

Who me? I still played more rounds than you in 06!

[NoBack]

Who me? I still played more rounds than you in 06!

lol
no dan it was not intended for you in pariticular

[Pinshark]

Will we be seeing the spring openings link soon?

[Kilroy]

As soon as we see green grass.

[Pinshark]

whatever happened to the big dome over a course idea?

[Kilroy]

Yah like that was gonna happen.

[RBAKER]

Don't you Ottawa guys have lots of snow!

[jonf]

Don't you Ottawa guys have lots of snow!

Ya, it tends to make them delusional though.

[big mac]

Don't you Ottawa guys have lots of snow!

We sent it all to Oswego County NY

[Kilroy]

Don't you Ottawa guys have lots of snow!

No we don't. I think we have maybe 6" on the ground. I have never seen such a year and I have lived here 35 years. Some years we have had it up so high we had to shovel off the tops of the snowbanks onto our front yards so we could have somewhere to put the new snow. This year, not so much

[golfchick07]

You guys kill me......how about we have winter now!! when it is winter and then we may actually get a spring this year and not snow in May!
I am an optimistic realist!!!

[bbad]

nobody tell old man winter that he forgot Ottawa...I'm kinda liking not having to do the shoveling this year.

Then again, I just found out we're getting a good 'ol snow storm tomorrow night, so that won't last for long...lol

Given the temperatures that I've seen being forcasted, even that amount of snow won't last long.

C'mon SPRING

[jonf]

Forgive me if this is just plain wrong, or just plain mean, but won't such a shortage of snow play havoc with the golf courses? Don't they rely on the melting snow to help them get in shape quickly? It seems like it could be a long, brown spring if you don't get some decent winter weather in the next month or so.

[Pinshark]

I think no snow is a problem when it is melting and freezing during the winter but we have had a nice coating through all the cold stuff. I may be wrong as well though lol.

[RBAKER]

When I lived in Ottawa, it was brutal. March was the worst, half the time, brutal blinding snowstorms. Then hot humid summers.
I miss Ottawa lived there from 65-92, but I do not miss the weather!

[PEI Golfing]

When I lived in Ottawa, it was brutal. March was the worst, half the time, brutal blinding snowstorms. Then hot humid summers.
I miss Ottawa lived there from 65-92, but I do not miss the weather!

Correct me if I am wrong, but do you not live in Mississauga.......???

Last I heard Mississauga had snow storms in March....., and do not recall the GTA having cool tropical breezes in the summmer.....

I will take Ottawa's summer golf weather anyday over the GTA !!!!

[stinger]

I can see us golfing the last week of March!

[RBAKER]

P.E.I ,

Yes I do live in Mississauga, here is a something : 2006 I played every month of the year Jan- through December- Did you in Ottawa?

Our season starts on a regular year March 22 or so- and runs right to the end of November. Thats got to be a couple of months longer than Ottawa.
Not to argue, I love a lot of things about Ottawa, but please do not tell me the weather there is better than Toronto. I would know, I've spent each half of my life in both Cities.

RB

[jonf]

I'll take a little extra cold in the winter over the smog of death in the summer

[RBAKER]

Never noticed the Smog, other then to see it occasionally.
Went to NYC once, and thought I was breathing in FUMES.

RB

[Kilroy]

And in the southern states they wear jackets in the summer at 35 degrees celcius! They don't notice the heat.

[PEI Golfing]

P.E.I ,

Yes I do live in Mississauga, here is a something : 2006 I played every month of the year Jan- through December- Did you in Ottawa?

Our season starts on a regular year March 22 or so- and runs right to the end of November. Thats got to be a couple of months longer than Ottawa.
Not to argue, I love a lot of things about Ottawa, but please do not tell me the weather there is better than Toronto. I would know, I've spent each half of my life in both Cities.

RB

Yeah, been to Toronto many times and really never noticed the smog either......



First thing tomorrow morning I am going to call up that travel agent of mine and cancel my March golf trip to Myrtle Beach. Why should I spend all that $ when I can golf in sunny warm Mississauga.............

[RBAKER]

Hee, hee... Actually dont come to Mississauga there are hardly any golf courses here. You will have to go further West to Oakville but book April 1 then your safe, so long as flights can get out of Ottawa weather dependant.

[Kilroy]

Our season starts on a regular year March 22 or so- and runs right to the end of November. Thats got to be a couple of months longer than Ottawa

Perhaps a couple of weeks. We often start in late March or early April and play until the end of November regularly. This year they played through Dec and even on Jan 7th in frosty conditions. The climate is not very different at all, but the air here is definitely cleaner which to me makes the summer heat much less stifling.

[jonf]

Hee, hee... Actually dont come to Mississauga there are hardly any golf courses here. You will have to go further West to Oakville but book April 1 then your safe, so long as flights can get out of Ottawa weather dependant.

Those usually don't slow us down too much. After all, in Ottawa we know how to shovel our own snow.