Here in southern Alberta it is winter, yet it is still fall. We have snow and temperatures have dipped to -15C or less in the past few days. That happens at this time of year, and it's only the end of October.
I recall as a kid our family receiving a Christmas letter from friends who had moved from Nanaimo to some out-in-the-middle-of-nowhere place called Sioux Lookout, Ontario, reporting that they had snow before Halloween. That was about 35 years ago and our family lived on Vancouver Island at that time. Snow before Oct. 31 sounded incredible. I don't need to travel out to the island to see what it's like there just now. All I need to do is find the British Columbia Highways traffic webcam site and see for myself what it is like a little north of Victoria, around the Shawnigan Lake turnoff and on the Nanaimo Parkway.
See the B.C. webcams at http://www.th.gov.bc.ca/bchighwaycam/index.aspx
See a webcam at Sioux Lookout at http://www.siouxlookoutwebcam.com/
