The snow has finally gone in downtown Vancouver, although it still persists on residential sidewalks over higher ground where it has frozen solid, making pedestrians’ lives difficult. The weather was warming up, we were forecast clear sunny days all week but instead we have been subjected to a few days worth of lingering low-lying fog which is unlike I’ve ever seen in the city. I feel like I”ve been transported to San Francisco but somebody forgot to turn the heat up. It gives the city a special sort of mystic atmosphere but it feels really cold and damp!

We were in North Vancouver on Saturday and it was gorgeous and sunny there as it is well above sea level, but you couldn’t see downtown at all over the other side of the water. It was amazing how different the weather was just a few kilometres away. Apparently it got up to a balmy 12 degrees on top of the mountains.

Alas, I don’t have any of my own photographs to share so I am sharing somebody else’s - most of these are from this flickr website.