Alberta Foothills Weather

Spring need not be bland in Alberta.
A week ago it was -10C with a windchill of -20. Today, we made 20C, feeling around 70 degrees F warmer.
The three foot snowdrifts in the yard have evaporated and only a trace remains of the biggest ones. No running water or giant puddles laying around, it simply disappeared [...]

After being stuck in the yard since Monday, the grader came along today and opened up the road this afternoon. Even with the temperatures hanging around the freezing mark yesterday, most places where there were only a few cm of snow have melted off already, leaving only the big drifts which also sank quite a [...]

Yuck!
Since the last post it has been nothing but ugly around here with the northwest wind howling constantly. This morning has been the worst so far with gusts pushing 70km/h making the end of the driveway hard to see through the blowing snow.
Impossible to tell how much snow has fallen since the last post [...]

Real winter has returned to Alberta. Cold, windy, snowy. Numerous weather warnings, blizzard warnings, and winter storm watches to the south and east since the last post, but have heard no real big weather stories so far.
Light snow started here Friday night, continued all day yesterday with occasional heavy bits, and it’s still snowing pretty [...]

Just got back from day two of a spring tour of the Alberta foothills from Ya Ha Tinda to Cadomin, with what could possibly be a historic spring prairie storm chasing us home. Still lots of snow up in the higher elevations and lots of mud to play in.
I’ve been semi-joking about wanting 3 feet [...]

After enjoying a nice chinook and almost hitting the 20C mark on Sunday, we have been in a cool north flow of boring spring weather. A few popcorns here and there, a bit of snow down in Lethbridge this morning, but nothing really worth mentioning.
That is about to change by the look of things.
The GFS [...]

While the snow finished melting off in Calgary today, we had a nice day here to end an interesting work-week that included a heavy snowfall warning to our north, another to our south, thunderstorms in a few places, and thick fog for a few mornings, contributing to a horrific crash near Rimbey involving a gravel [...]

WWCN15 CWWG 101837
SEVERE WEATHER BULLETIN
ISSUED BY ENVIRONMENT CANADA
AT 12:37 PM MDT THURSDAY 10 APRIL 2008.
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WATCHES/WARNINGS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN ALBERTA…

SNOWFALL WARNING FOR:
DRUMHELLER - THREE HILLS
BROOKS - STRATHMORE - VULCAN.

15 TO 25 CM OF [...]

Still waiting for the first rumble..
Lots of pretty popcorn out there today and some nice crisp towers for a few hours early this aft, but it was not warm, with a frosty northeast wind most of the day. A few spots of rain here and there, mostly to the east, what fell out of the [...]

Nothing very exciting here since the last post, but interesting to the north, south and west. Anthony sent in the first photo below of the scene Saturday morning in Airdire where they picked up 10cm of snow, and Brandon reported another foot of it west of Sundre in the foothills. Edmonton got anywhere from 4-10cm [...]