Alberta Foothills Weather

Nothing to complain about around here.
It looks like real winter, we have gained 5 or 6 cm of white stuff and have been out of the deeep freeze since the last post, with the last two days around the -4C mark. Maybe 10cm cover here now.
A few nice treats were supplied by Ma Nature over [...]

Though it seems like it’s been here for a month already, Winter officially arrived at 5:04 am this morning, an hour before the wicked southeast wind began and turned this into a rotten day.
It has been steadily getting colder since the last post, not getting to -40 here, but very close at dozens of stations [...]

After 3 days in the deep freeze, today was at least tolerable.
Temperatures began to rise early in the morning as a low pushed down from the Arctic Ocean, folks on the north edge of Canada along the Mackenzie delta were above zero yesterday, while along our southern border they were dealing with -33C.
A few more [...]

Yep, it’s cold!
Yesterday turned out to be just about as bad as predicted. Snow began early in the morning, the wind followed and the ditches of the QE2 began to fill with vehicles all the way from Leduc to Calgary. A flood of fender benders in Red Deer had people lined up out the door [...]

It’s beginning to look a bit like Christmas around here.
After a November to remember, with a coldest high temp of -3.2C, and a coldest low of only -11, December has been a bit more wintery so far. A few sprinkles of snow here and there, a quick dip into real winter, then back out the [...]