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Your Weekend Weather
Remember when you were an obnoxious kid and your parents took you to the amusement park and, even though they didn't think it was such a great idea, they let you ride the giant roller-coaster?
I personally will never forget my first spleen-rending coaster ride at the Pacific National Exhibition in Vancouver because it took place almost immediately after I'd consumed a huge spaghetti dinner.
I will spare you the grisly details, but the point I am trying to make is you should never -- and you may want to write this down -- combine a spaghetti dinner with large quantities of gravity. I am sharing this memory today because we are all about to ride the weather-related Roller-Coaster of Doom.
Remember how great we felt during that stretch of mild weather and then -- WHAM! -- we got socked in the face by a big frozen fist when the temperature plummeted the last few days?
Well, buckle up kids, because the ride is starting again. Environment Canada says we'll enjoy a mild weekend, with a 40 per cent chance of flurries today and a high of -7 C, nicely above the normal frosty high of -13 C at this time of year. On Sunday, there's a 60 per cent chance of snow and a beautifully balmy high of -1 C.
But we all know what comes next: Our roller-coaster car reaches the top of the tracks, creeps over and -- AIYEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! down we go, by which I mean the temperature is going to plunge the rest of the week.
On Monday, we're talking sunny with a high of -16 C, but it will keep free-falling to around -20 C for the rest of the week. Does that sound like a fun ride or what, kids? OK, that's a rhetorical question.
The important thing, Winnipeg, is there are a lot of cool things we can do this weekend to stay warm. For starters, you can purify your mind and body by checking out nearly 100 exhibits at the annual Winnipeg Wellness Expo today and Sunday at the convention centre. Why should you go? Well, according to a website promoting the event, quote: "Bodies and minds nourished by a diet of junk food and tabloid magazines secretly yearn to rebel by reading Proust and binging on brussels sprouts."
While you're getting body and soul and brussels sprouts together at the convention centre, you might as well check out the annual Kitchen, Bath and Renovation Show, featuring design expert Tommy Smythe, partner for the last nine years with HGTV style guru Sarah Richardson. My wife says I'll be there, too.
No matter what you do, kids, I'm sure you'll enjoy nature's thrilling roller-coaster ride -- just remember to skip the spaghetti and meatballs.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition January 14, 2012 A2
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