Alberta Foothills Weather

We are forecast to get a snow/rain mix this evening, all day it has been feeling like it could snow. I was curious how this August/September compared to last year, so I put together this chart with hi/low temps and wind gusts for the past two years covering Aug1 to Sept.27. I was surprised to [...]

A weak shortwave passed through from the NW this afternoon after 2pm, kicking up a few thunderstorms along the way. Nothing severe, but we did get a quick 10mm of rain and even some ice bits along with a stiff breeze for about an hour as it passed over. Radar showed what may have been [...]

A small cold front moved through this afternoon, firing up a little line of thunderstorms out around Rocky. It was dying off on radar but I went out to meet it anyway around 4pm. There wasn’t much to see other than a weak shelf and some pretty virga/rainspatters. Everything faded away shortly after.
Harvest moon tomorrow [...]

Big freeze this morning as we hit -3.1C(26F). Pushing to break 16C this afternoon and breezy. Brr! The giant pumpkin that never was, is toast. All the plants seem to have taken a hit to some degree.
Last time we were this cold was back on April 12 when we also had a low of -3.1 [...]

Just as I finished up posting the last post, a nice little shelf cloud came rolling in from the northwest, so I went a mile north and set up. Nice treat for the last day of summer!

Just got back from a little vacation in Waterton Lakes National Park, and it looks like it was pretty nice here while we were gone. Interesting weather they have down there in the southwest corner of Alberta. We had beautiful clear skies for the trip down, but it was very smoky which cut down on [...]

Beautiful sunny day here today, hitting27C at 3pm. A cold front passed through from the NW after 6pm this eve, bringing mostly rain. I went out west a few miles to meet what looked on radar like a gust front moving in from the Rocky area. There was a weak shelf cloud to the west [...]

Yesterday was a beautiful day for cloud watching, but we had other plans and didn’t get a chance to go out for a look.
Today was even better. Around 1pm the first popcorns started up and within an hour the sky was full of billowing cumulonimbus, the show continued all afternoon. I don’t think anything got [...]

I guess I wasn’t paying attention to how fast the winter darkness is coming. Seems like only weeks ago it was light out at 11pm, this shot of auroras was at 10:25 last night and it had been pitch black for half an hour already with no moon. A lot of dust/smoke in the air [...]

Today started with a few rumbles of thunder around 9am. Around 9C at the time. Mid afternoon, a few little cells popped up west of Rocky and started tracking southeast, so I went out for a look. They were doing ok out in the foothills, but rapidly fell apart as soon as they got out [...]