s07e09 - Sometimes They Get it Right!

How many times in your lifetime have the folks who bring you the weather got it completely and utterly wrong?
Lets turn that into a percentage, and its gotta be in the 80's or higher. They just never get it right.
So, when the weather service here in Toronto says that there will be afternoon rain and/or snow, I took it with a grain of salt and went out for a walk anyway. Sure it was heavily overcast, it was freezing cold and there was a fair wind whipping up, not the best conditions for a walk anyway but it could have been worse .... and was.
Momments like these rarely happen just after you're outside your front door so you can turn around and go back inside to your toasty couch/sofa/bed. No, instead, I was about 3km's away at the time walking away from where I was staying when the weather turned nasty. Luckily there was a massive shopping centre at about this distance (the Eaton Center) and so a little bit of shelter was sought while the initial bit of "shit" weather rolled over.

Once it looked like it was passed it was time to start the 40 minute walk back home, hopefully only in dreadful weather rather than the terribly disheartening weather from a short time earlier.

I didn't get far.

I got just across the road when I got slapped in the side of the head by a whopping great piece of snow. Great, snow .... this is rediculous. Well, it was because the brief flurry soon turned into rain which just plain sucks when it's 1C outside (thats not taking into account the windchill which would have had to have dropped the temp to something closer to -7 or -8C)
The walk home wasn't all that bad, although I was pretty wet, very cold and numb on all the bits that weren't covered.

Today's lesson .... don't go outside .... ever.