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Calgary: Would you like this weather?
mashamoto79
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http://climate.weather.gc.ca/climateData/dailydata_e.html?StationID=50430&Month=9&Day=9&Year=2014&timeframe=2
7th Sept: 25.8C - Sunny
8th Sept: SNOW!! 11.8 cm
9th Sept: 2.2C
First could you deal with snow in the first part of September?
Could you go from a warm summer day to a heavy snow storm the next day?
Nightmare:o
7th Sept: 25.8C - Sunny
8th Sept: SNOW!! 11.8 cm
9th Sept: 2.2C
First could you deal with snow in the first part of September?
Could you go from a warm summer day to a heavy snow storm the next day?
Nightmare:o
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I wouldn't like the power outages, but I want the snow!
Wouldn't mind getting some snow like the rest of Canada mind. Might have to take a trip to Calgary this fall.
Snow in the third week of May isn't unknown in Edmonton..
When I was a child it was pretty common for it to rain in Vancouver from the end of October until the middle of April. I remember 3 feet of snow falling in Vancouver in the late 60s and again in the late 70s early 80s.
It's the kind of day on day temperature differential which we would almost never experience in the UK, but can occur on a large landmass. Must be a shock to the system, You have my sympathies.
I say "almost" never. Probably the closest we got to it was end of March beginning of April 1968, but that was over 4/5 days. That could never happen in September because of the surrounding sea warmth.
As with many parts of Canada, snow in September is not unusual, and pretty well expected before Halloween. Growing up, most kids had to contemplate wearing a snowsuit under their costume when going out to trick-or-treat, so you didn't see very many of the 'slutty' costumes that are so rampant now, unless slutty marshmallow man is your thing.
You just get used to the weather and its unpredictability, you plan for everything if you go traveling. The cold weather seems unfathomable to people who haven't experienced it. Quite common in the winter to get minus 30C for weeks on end (many northern US states get this as well), that kind of cold would put the UK in complete and utter chaos.
I have visited in most seasons and I love the winter there, in saying that I'm only there for 2 weeks at a time, I might not like it as much if I spent a whole winter there. My dads wife found our winters colder because it was so damp, her mum used to send thermals over for her to wear here, she never wears them at home. She used to find it funny how here the lightest snow fall would cause chaos. One year coming home my flight was delayed by 7hrs because of the weather conditions here, I flew out of Calgary in a blizzard the weather there was that bad that they didn't put luggage on the plane to keep the weight down.