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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Crazy winds in Calgary last Sunday. Damage all over the place. Take a look at this plane landing at the Calgary International Airport:

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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 woke up to -10 windchill today and I am really in need of some good weather. I remember that we got some snow early on October and that we had a day or two of -16 C back then and I feel it’s time for some good weather.

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Here we go again. Another winter storm on its way to hit Calgary. Hope it won’t be too long before we see some decent weather.

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We got a strong Chinook wind going through Calgary right now. I took this picture of a Chinook Cloud to show to those of you who have not seem one yet. Sometimes I get some headaches whenever there’s a Chinook going through (had one yesterday) but today I am just fine. .

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It appears that Spring has finally arrived in Calgary as you can see on the Environment Canada forecast below. Enjoy!

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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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