Move on to the next article if you’re a winter hater, one of those people who dislike cold joy. This is a lament for another lousy winter, lousy because it hasn’t been much of a winter at all. In late summer and fall, when many begin to worry about winter, the weather fear mongers and even the Canadian Farmers’ Almanac were predicting a fierce winter for Toronto. Those megacity blues are brought up every time somebody tags a city snowstorm with the #Snowmageddon hashtag, unleashing the Toronto winter jokes yet again. It isn’t just Toronto though: across Canada reports of the upcoming winter included scary words like brace, frigid, ice cold, and bitter.

Source: thestar February 10, 2017 07:52 UTC