Markham, ON - Hey, we're seeing the shades of spring appearing! Just as when we all think, "when will winter end?", we are going to have a taste of spring (as I had promised in my earlier blog) in the next 2 days or so. A Colorado low drawing extensive moisture is finding its way up to Ontario and Quebec, just in time for Tuesday and Wednesday. Due to the jet stream is aligning more northerly than most other winter storms during the past few months, this allows more warm air to flow into the Windsor-Quebec City Corridor. In a sense, most of the precipitation of this storm will be rain-oriented. In fact, during "peak warmth period" tomorrow, the 0C surface temperature line goes all the way up to Moosonee, Ontario. Hence, allowing much of Ontario to experience rain tomorrow, while near the extreme north, some wet snow and freezing rain.

This morning, much of Southern Ontario saw a little bit of wet snow (nothing accumulated for most areas), as the warm front passes through. Northern Ontario, and East-central Quebec, however, will start seeing this system as mainly snow, accumulating up to 5 cm, switching briefly (maximum 10 hours) to rain. Temperatures across this warm sector of the low (on the Canadian side) will range from 8 C down in Windsor, Ontario to -2 C in Moosonee, Ontario, which was a little lower than what we had previously forecasted on Sunday.

Moderate to heavy rain is going to fall mostly around the Windsor-Quebec City Corridor. In Toronto, particularly, we can expect up to 30 mm of rain, making it the first rainstorm of the spring season. Technically, however, spring does not begin until March 20, 2008.

However, spring does not stay long. As soon as the cold front hits the corridor during the course of Wednesday evening, we are back to some winter like temperature. We are going to receive some wrap-around flurries, accumulating around 1 cm, at maximum 5 cm (some forecasters are suggesting more than 10 cm, which I think is rather unlikely). Some winter like temperature with sunny skies come during the Easter weekend, with temperatures across Ontario hovering between -5 C to 0 C.

Children are discounted by adults in society. This is nothing new, for adults have always minimized the wisdom of children::::The gods corrupt people as they age, use trust-building tactics and soon adults view the children as ignorant, yet to understand the god's system, and subsequently look down on the children. This is one of the most bitter, painful ironies the gods employ::::
Religions teach that old people to go to heaven when they die. They don't. Old people are reincarnated. It's children who go to heaven.
The wisdom the gods impart to children, either through their innocence/purity or religious-based educational pursuits, are the gods sharing the truth with their most favored people::::It's the children whom the gods teach the right way for it is the children who have a chance. For example, they teach children to have faith, for understanding the god's geographical clues hurts people by illustrating negative things, opening the door for the god's to employ deceptive tactics.
Old people don't go to heaven. Old people must come back because of the mistakes they've made throughout their lives. It's the children who have the opportunity to go to "heaven". They must behave apprioriately, think correctly and be genuinely god-fearing. Their innocence and lack of desensitization ensures they have a real opportunity to achieve this goal.