It's a beautiful sunny day just below freezing here today. Yesterday was a different story - 15 cm of snow and hour after hour of freezing rain. The trees out back were ice laden, and walking under the huge white pines was like traveling through a world of tents. A little sun, and everything has popped back up to its normal shape.
I have never experienced such a mild January before, here in my new oceanside environment. There's a storm due tomorrow that is supposed to drop 50cm in an arc west of here, and to give us a little snow and a lot of rain. The day I moved here, last February, it was -27c. The coldest we've been this year is -8c. I'm not complaining, especially when I see the heating bills.
Tornadoes were just on TV til about 10 years back when they became an issue where I used to live in Montreal. All of a sudden, I saw a couple of big funnel clouds, and they were touching down in the nearby region. I knid of liked the invasion of southern songbirds we were having, but the southern tornadoes were not welcome. Around here, to the east, all we get are wayward hurricane winds.