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For about four months, from December to March, the weather and road conditions will make pedaling a bike a chore. due to cold and wind and road surface conditions. Toronto has a lot of winter days where the actual air temperature is around zero Celsius, so the roads can be icy or slushy, and the wind chill, depending on the actual wind speed can be minus 20 C.
When it snows, it can take up to 24 hours for the city snow plows to clear the main roads, and side streets can take up to three days. Even then the lane closest to the sidewalk is where the snow is pushed, by the plow trucks, and navigating the snow piles and puddles is difficult to do. You will be soaked up to your knees at least, and have to change clothes when you get to the school. The street drains are located by the sidewalks and the snow piles cover them, so the water takes days to drain away. If it drops below the freezing point, over night, all of that water turns to ice, and makes riding dangerous, to say the least.
Remember that Canada is a Nordic country, not a tropical one. We get winter weather, EVERY year, and how cold it gets is not under anyone's control.
I would NOT count on riding a pedal bike, in Toronto, in the winter, as my sole means of transportation. That is why we have a transit system.
but other seasons, will it be ok to ride bike from home to college? is there rainy season here?
The other seasons should be fine for that, Toronto does not have a rainy season. Rain occurs rarely in inland Toronto compared to in coastal climates, and follows a pattern where it gets hot and humid in the summer and slowly after an extended period of heat and humidity atmospheric conditions build to storm levels and dramatic, relatively brief storms occur that dump alot of rain at once, often with lightening involvement. These are fairly easily predicted and you have alot of warning based on what it starts to look like outside, as well as with weather reports, so you'll know on these relatively few days to bring an umbrella, maybe use the bus, or just try and wait out the storm as they usually last only between 3-7 hours (although sometimes they are longer, especially is they are the remnants of hurricanes hitting further south). Summer has the most storms, spring and fall are fairly dry.
A Nordic country is one that has a cold, snowy, winter.
Canada is just that. Did you notice how well Canadians do in winter sports, at the Olympics ?
Or that we originated ice hockey, as a sport? Or that we invented the snowmobile, the railway snow plow, and the snow blower ?
Other Nordic countries are Norway, Finland, Iceland, and Russia. None of them are tropical countries, wouldn't you agree ?
Look........ I have lived in Canada all my life, so I do know what I am talking about, when it comes to weather here.
The fact that you asked about "the rainy season ' tells me that you have little idea about the weather conditions in Canada. Its not a tropical climate.
A Nordic country is one that has a cold, snowy, winter.
Canada is just that. Did you notice how well Canadians do in winter sports, at the Olympics ?
Or that we originated ice hockey, as a sport? Or that we invented the snowmobile, the railway snow plow, and the snow blower ?
Other Nordic countries are Norway, Finland, Iceland, and Russia. None of them are tropical countries, wouldn't you agree ?
Look........ I have lived in Canada all my life, so I do know what I am talking about, when it comes to weather here.
The fact that you asked about "the rainy season ' tells me that you have little idea about the weather conditions in Canada. Its not a tropical climate.
Jim B.
Toronto.
Nordic is a geographic designation, not a climatic one. Thanks for the lulz anyway...
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