Alberta Foothills Weather

A beautiful warm sunny Sunday got us up and headed west this morning to check out what was happening in the foothills.
Plenty of wildlife out enjoying the last bit of the good times before winter returns this week. Moose munching, deer bouncing around and even some wild horses soaking up the sun made for a [...]

More stagnant weather since the last post. Really getting spoiled here with the nice warm temps and lots of sun. Most of the week there have been temperature inversions happening anywhere cold air can pool up, such at the bowl the City of Red Deer sits in. Quite the smog hanging over the city all [...]

Not much change since the last post, we have been hanging right around our normal temps for this time of year (-7/-18) and that is forecast to continue for the foreseeable future. Looks like nothing more than a dusting of snow until Monday? humbug. The GFS is calling for a few doses next week for [...]

Gee it’s nice out there. -4C is the coldest temp here since last post, and that was for a few minutes this morning. The only thing saving the snow we have left is the cloud cover we’ve had with the warm temps. Lots of wildlife out and about enjoying the easy pickins.
Still nothing exciting showing [...]

Sundre hit 7C(45F) this afternoon and we hit 3 here under sunny skies. It’s still 1.7C(35F) here as I write this, while the Red Deer station(YQF), ~10 miles northeast, is -4C. Feels like a spring evening out there.
These temps are forecast to change very little over the next two days with highs of +5 and [...]

Cough.. hack..sneeze.. I hate colds.
The first half of the first day of the year was quite nice weather-wise. More hoar frosties were out in the bright sunshine this morning. The big H that gave us the nice calm weather of the past few days moved over to Saskatchewan as a trough pushed NW into BC. [...]