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 [...]