Life in Calgary

As I write this the windchill factor is at -35 C and that is pretty cold. If you don’t live in Canada and have to idea what that means I suggest the following experiment: Stick your head into your freezer and think of something 3 times colder than that as your freezer probably does not [...]

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Forgive me if I am tired of the winter. Maybe I am getting old and my tolerance to cold has been decreasing or this has been a cold Winter. It looks like we have a good snow dump coming our way to help welcome Spring. Enjoy.

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The weather forecast for tomorrow is showing a high of +5 C. I hope that’s true as this has been one of the coldest winters I have seen in Calgary. What do you do to keep in good shape when the temperature is below -20 C for over a month? Hope it won’t be long [...]

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I went for a walk with my dog and captured this video clip to give you an idea of how a -29 C Windchill day looks like. Video quality is not fantastic because I filmed with my phone and the dog was dragging me but you will get the idea. It was a cold day [...]

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Here are some pictures that I took during a recent visit to Lake Louise. Despite all the snow and ice that you see in the picture it was just -8 Celsius that Day. Thought that converting the pictures to black and white would keep the focus on the snow The link will take you to [...]

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We spent Christmas around the rockies and I thought I should post a small video clip to show how beautiful Canmore is. Wish I had the money to buy a cabin there. It must be “horrible” to wake up every day and to look at these mountains.

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I am tired of cold temperatures and ready for some warm days. Have you been enjoying the cold weather?

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It’s still cold in Calgary and you can see on the Environment Canada forecast below the temperature does not get much better at least until Friday. Hard to believe that I was at a picnic last Sunday where I got a little sunburn as the temperature was around +23 C.We went from +23 to -23 [...]

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I thought that Spring had started as we had a nice picnic on April 13th and it was +23 C that day. Well, I should had known better. It’s not safe to assume that Spring has arrived at least until mid may. Hard to believe though that windchill was -21 C this morning.

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I hope that if you live in Calgary that you have not gotten the same cold that has hit me. I have been coughing for one month now and I took some Tylenol and thought was getting better but last Monday things really went downhill and it was a pretty tough week for me. I [...]

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