 Calgary: Here's what summer snow looks likeWeather | 206939 hits | Sep 08 3:48 pm | Posted by: N_Fiddledog  The calendar says its summer but the weather outside is frightful. A hot, sunny weekend dissolved overnight into rain and wet snow throughout the city, with temperatures around 0 degrees Celsius.Commentsview comments in forum Page 1 2 You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.