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Environment Canada says its gonna be a very cold start to the new year eh

"2017 is about to end with the coldest air of the year. A fresh surge of record-breaking Arctic air is forecast to encompass the entire province in its icy grip. A trough of low pressure currently over Southern Ontario will drop south of the Great Lakes tonight, opening the door to an even colder northerly wind."

weather.gc.ca/warnings/report_

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whoever at Environment Canada is writing the copy for these Extreme cold weather warnings, you are doing a great job, thank you

@staticsafe

But what is up with the Environment Canada RSS weather feed? It will be silent for ages, and then there will be a couple of posts that tell me that there are no warnings in effect. So, if no warnings, why post? Very peculiar.

@mirabilis yeah its a bit weird but I guess the way their software works, every time they have to clear out a warning/advisory it counts as another post hence the "no warnings in effect" posts

@staticsafe So you've noticed these, too? For years I have wondered if I am the sole user of their RSS feeds, and the only one who has noticed.

@mirabilis I have only recently subscribed to their alerts RSS feed but yeah I noticed

Seems to happen fairly regularly