Alberta Foothills Weather

Nothing but beautiful weather since the last post. Dry and warm, highs of 6, 5 and 4C, only down to -5 or 6 overnight, well above the -2/-12 normals.
It was a perfect day Tuesday morning for a trip down the foothills from Mountainaire Lodge to Kananaskis country, with a huge standing wave cloud forming up [...]

We’ve had our first taste of winter temperatures since the last post.
Below freezing high temps and 60km/h southeast wind gave us a full day of near -20C windchills Thursday, not really warming up till yesterday, when things cleared up and we got to see Venus and Jupiter again after being blocked by crud for a [...]

Bleh
Wind has been the prominent player around here since the last post. Plenty of it Thursday and Friday, then a break on Saturday as a chinook pushed in from the south, setting off a nice display of wave clouds just before sunset. The past two days have been west coast wintery. Fog and snow bits [...]

After another foggy pair of days and soupy nights, a band of freezing rain passed over early this morning, just enough to make the deck and sidewalk dangerous and slick up the highways for a few hours until the sun dried it all up before noon. Warm and clear most of the day, up to [...]

The week since the last post has been quite nice around here.
A few specks of snow, not enough to measure and gone within minutes of sunrise, a two minute shot of ice pellets and freezing drizzle that dried up almost instantly.
Average temps for this time of year are +2/-8C, we have been well above that [...]

Beautiful weather around here to kick off November.
Sunny and 18C yesterday, almost seeming hot at times, 13C above normal temps for this time of year.
A perfect day for a spin around the countryside, a 4 hour trip and we were never more than 20 km from home. The wildlife was out and about everywhere we [...]