[Newsbot]

Title: Calgary: Here's what summer snow looks like
Category: Weather
Posted By: N_Fiddledog
Date: 2014-09-08 15:48:46
Canadian

[N_Fiddledog]

Polar Vortex right?

[Zipperfish]

30 degrees in Vancouver yesterday.

[N_Fiddledog]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

30 degrees in Vancouver yesterday.

Oh, you haven't got the news about how the vortex works yet, I see.

You see it can be nice and sunny in Vancouver, but if it's cold in Calgary that's because a lot of ice melted in 2012 so that accounts for any unseasonable cold weather anywhere, ever.

Well, it is only supposed to happen late winter, early spring, and the summer minimum for ice melt looks like it ended weeks early this year (got cold early you see), but doesn't matter.

The Polar Vortex is magical. You don't even have to understand it. You just need to know the magic words - Vortex, Jets, Waves. Say those and you never have to wonder again why it got cold all of a sudden no matter where you are in the Northern Hemisphere.

Wanna know why? There was a study.

(Well actually there was a bunch of them, but the one that we like with the melty ice in 2012 got mentioned by the CBC, so that's the only one that matters)

[N_Fiddledog]

Oh and speaking of 2012 and waves, did you know that waves in the ocean melt ice so that means that the ice melt of 2012 was caused by waves, not freak storms that year like those stupid skeptics believed.

So you see more ice melts and more waves can happen until all the ice is gone.

OMG!!!

True that didn't actually happen. Actually the ice returned in each of the following years, but doesn't matter. There was a study. The ice is all gonna melt. CBC said so.

You just watch, next year all the ice is gone. There was a study I tell you. It's science.

[raydan]

[ShepherdsDog]

Summer Snows.... Winter is coming!

[Gunnair]

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Hell, I've seen it snow in July while driving the highway between North Bay and Timmins.

[DrCaleb]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

Hell, I've seen it snow in July while driving the highway between North Bay and Timmins.

It wasn't even a record snowfall for September. Record is 10 inches.

[martin14]

People are getting softer every year.

[DrCaleb]

martin14 martin14:

People are getting softer every year.

Agreed. I know that the weather 'collapses' usually after the September long weekend. It's just how the climate is around here. We rarely see the high 20's after that. Mid teen daily highs, near freezing overnight lows. It's what we expect.

But every year, it just seems a little colder on my old bones.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

Hell, I've seen it snow in July while driving the highway between North Bay and Timmins.

It wasn't even a record snowfall for September. Record is 10 inches.

Oh God, you should hear them around here when it snows. Two inches of snow in one "dumping" in the GTA is considered to be a "major snow-storm".
Hell, when I lived up north and in Winnipeg, two inches of snow in one shot was a nice spring day.

[martin14]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

Hell, I've seen it snow in July while driving the highway between North Bay and Timmins.

It wasn't even a record snowfall for September. Record is 10 inches.

Oh God, you should hear them around here when it snows. Two inches of snow in one "dumping" in the GTA is considered to be a "major snow-storm".
Hell, when I lived up north and in Winnipeg, two inches of snow in one shot was a nice spring day.

Snowplows didn't come out in Montreal for less than 6 inches.

[bootlegga]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

Polar Vortex right?

Close, a combination of Arctic air mixed with moisture from the Pacific.

Fairly standard around here...the forecast is +20 on the weekend, so no big deal really, except maybe wimps from BC.