Alberta Foothills Weather

Thrillions of tons of water vapor poured across the Rockies over the past few days… we got about 3 pounds of it here in the form of snow dust. Not even really a flake anywhere, just 2cm of powder, but at least enough to cover the lawn. Looking at EC’s snow cover map, Hinton [...]

The periods of snow we were forecast to get this weekend evaporated and we got nothing. A big high sliding down from the north pushed a cold front across here this afternoon, which is slated to hold it’s ground against the mountains tomorrow as a huge trough piles in from the coast. Models seem [...]

Stagnant weather here since the last post. We have had a big high sitting just over the mountains to the west keeping all the interesting stuff off to the northeast. Normal temps, +2/-12 with light winds and a few wispy clouds here and there. The snow we were lined up for on the weekend [...]

After another warm week of +10 temps and spring clouds, normal temps have returned as we now sit under high pressure and severe clear skies . Yesterday was the first day of November with a daily high below zero, at -1C. We hit -16 at sunrise this morning, our coldest temp since April 4.
Things were [...]

Still brown.
The jet stream has been lazily passing weak ridges and troughs along a fairly flat path for weeks now, resulting in quite boring but warm weather. We have not yet had a daily high below zero in November and it hasn’t been below -7 for 2 weeks. This week passed by with waves of [...]

Wind warnings went out yesterday for much of central and southern Alberta, and are just beginning to lift now. A 975mb low swept in from BC, giving little but wind. A few flurries up north of the low and a lot of blow along and behind the sharp front.
We were mostly spared from the worst [...]

We had a chance for 2-5cm of snow last night/this morning, or a bit of freezing rain, or a few ice pellets, but we got bupkus.
Not a drop or a flake anywhere around here. A cold southeast wind for the past 12 hours has now changed to a warm southwest wind, with temps jumping [...]

After two cold windy days on the 4th and 5th, yesterday we hit +16C as a warm ridge built in from BC. Freezing rain has been widespread over Alberta, with the Grande Prairie area getting iced on the night of the 5th. Freezing rain warnings are out now for central Alberta from Grande Prairie [...]

So much for the first big snow dump of the season. We got an inch.
From watching radar last night, it appears Whitecourt/Edson/ Drayton got the best of it, with the snow starting before 6 and continuing on well after midnight.
A band of snow formed up from Drayton Valley through Wetaskiwin early in the eve, [...]

WOCN16 CWWG 031042
Updated special weather statement issued for regions of northern Alberta
by Environment Canada at 4:41 AM MDT Saturday 3 November 2007.
Special weather statement issued for..
City of Edmonton - St. Albert - Sherwood Park
Spruce Grove - Morinville - Mayerthorpe - Evansburg
Fort Saskatchewan - Vegreville - Redwater - Smoky Lake
Drayton Valley - Devon - Rimbey - [...]