UPDATE:US Sen Reid: After we sat around for eight years waiting for Bush to leave, the process of saving our children from CO2-induced hellfire is now "taking too long"

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Wednesday that he will take up energy and climate-change legislation being developed in the U.S. House of Representatives instead of pursuing a separate package in the U.S. Senate.
The statement appeared to undercut his colleagues on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, which has started a series of votes on energy legislation. Controversial parts of the package, such as requiring states to generate a certain amount of energy from renewable sources, have not yet cleared the panel.
"The Energy Committee is having trouble getting a bill out of the committee - it is taking too long," Reid said at an event sponsored by the Center for American Progress Action Fund. "The House is going to finish their bill by Memorial Day, so I think that it's to everyone's benefit that we follow what the House is doing."

Thunder Bay: Record snowfall

The total snow accumulation from Thunder Bay’s recent winter storm totals 40 to 50 centimetres – more than double the 20 to 25 centimetres that was first predicted to fall on this area.

Environment Canada confirmed the totals Wednesday afternoon, and meteorologist Peter Kimbell said the numbers could even be a record breaker for the area.

"This is probably the most significant storm of this winter," Kimbell said. "It’s probably also a record … March 31, 1966 there was 10.4 centimetres of snow, and April 1, 1974 there was 13.7. So both of those were broken."

From Canada: March 2009 Coldest in Seven Years

The March we've just left behind was one of the worst we've seen in seven years. The mean temperature in Regina was minus 10.7, and in Saskatoon the mean temperature was minus 11.6. This is about five degrees colder than the usual temperature of Saskatchewan's two largest cities.

Perth shivers through coldest March nights in 41 years « Where’s my Global Warming Dude? By Global Freeze

Residents of Perth have just shivered through their coldest March nights in 41 years, according to weatherzone.com.au.

The city had an average minimum of 15 degrees, below the long term normal of 17. This made it the coldest March in terms of overnight temperatures since 1968 and the fifth coldest March in terms of overnight temperatures on record.