Alberta Foothills Weather

No snow for the Halloweenies this year. It’s brown and dry instead.
A cold front is forecast to sweep down out of the NW at 40kts this evening, perhaps kicking up some dust around treat time for the goblins on the north end of the foothills in Grande Prairie, then push across here around midnight. [...]

Nothing very interesting in the forecast as the jetstream has straightened out and is only passing weak ridge/trough patterns over the west. The GEM model suggests we might get a sprinkle Monday night, and again Thursday night, but nothing serious. The nights are certainly cooling off, hanging around -5 this week. Now there is ice [...]

A small low pressure system moved across Alberta from the northwest around 7 this morning, giving us about a cm of snow. Just enough to remind us of what might be coming. Bring it on I say. A surface ridge is building in over Alberta today and we are forecast to be back above normals [...]

After breaking our 41year high temperature record yesterday, hitting 23.5C at YQF, a sharp cold front blew through at 4:30pm(fig.1), with winds veering instantly from SW to NNE and gusting to 60+km/h. We got a few mm of rain in the early evening, then a few patches of ice pellets and some flurries near midnight. [...]

Another nice week goes by. All the leaves have gone and the farmers seem to be pretty much wrapped up for the season around here. Seemed warmer than 12C out there this aft, much better than the 6C that was forecast earlier in the week for today. EnviroCan is calling for 17C on [...]

The warm spell continues as we bask in the sun under a nice upper ridge. Red Deer(YQF) reported a high of 19C between 4 and 5 this afternoon, we hit 21C here at 5pm with a low of 1C at 8am this morning . Normals for the season are +12/-3C so we are well above [...]

What a beautiful day out there today.
After being windswept to the northwest for the past few days, squeezed between a big low to the west and a big high to the east, today was calm and quite warm, reaching for 20C in the late afternoon. There were even a few puffies floating around to keep [...]

Heavy snowfall warnings went out early in the afternoon of the 4th for Crowsnest pass, Pincher Creek and Waterton Park, calling for 15-25cm Thursday night into Friday morning, then updated later in the evening to include the Bow valley and upping amounts to 15-35cm, saying that 15-20cm had already fallen in the Bow valley [...]

No snow yet. Instead we were treated to some nice puffies today as we almost made 20C this afternoon. They were a joy to watch as they billlowed and boiled up into the frosty air above. I don’t think anything got over 20k feet, but a few developed anvils before quickly collapsing. A nice [...]