Life in Calgary

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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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 is a picture that I took while we were walking the dog yesterday. Quite a change in scenery from just a little over two weeks ago.

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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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You have probably seen in the news that Avalanches have caused quite a few tragedies recently and if you are planning to head to the mountains I would strongly suggest that you check these web sites first: Canadian Avalanche Centre Basic information from Emergency Preparedness Canada Canadian Avalanche Association Be safe out there!

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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 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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It’s still very cold in Calgary as you can see on the snapshot taken from Environment Canada’s web site. Hopefully this will get better as we head towards the weekend.

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Well, winter does not officially start until late December but it’s been pretty cold and it does look very promising if you check the weather forecast provided by the good folks at Environment Canada. Technorati Tags: Calgary, Canada, Weather, Winter, Cold

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We got a little bit of snow between October 29th and October 30th and I thought I should produce a little video clip to give those who don’t live in Calgary a little bit of an idea of how the north of Calgary looks like as seen from a building in downtown. Enjoy the video [...]

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