There's a tiny moment between 5:45 and 7:00 where there isn't a forecast. Starting at 7:00am it is snow, snow, heavy snow. Well, actually, the forecast says "blizzard". Look at the radar - so many colours of blue, then there's green and red. Red is for ice.
So it is blizzard until 1:00pm today when it becomes snow again. It moves to light snow, then snow, then scattered flurries, then blowing snow. We're starting to move into Monday morning with a mix of sun and clouds - rise and shine it is 7:00am and your holiday weekend has been a long weekend forced to stay-at-home - a "Snoliday."
And what is a blizzard? Three components are necessary - "high winds at least 40 km/h, visibility less than 400 meters and lasting for 4 hours. That's the Canadian definition.
And if we get a ground blizzard?
"Another type of winter storm is called a ground blizzard. This is when gusty winds—often 50 to 60 miles an hour—lift up snow that's already on the ground. Both types of blizzards can cause whiteouts, a condition in which so much snow is blowing so fast that it's hard to see anything."
The worst blizzards in history were in Iran in 1872 and in Afghanistan in 2008. Iran's was the deadliest blizzard in recorded history and dropped as much as 26 feet of snow, completely covering 200 villages. The Storm of the Century was in 1993 in the U.S. Toronto's great snow storm of 1999 is not covered in Wikipedia. It is remembered for bringing out the military to clear the streets.
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