We're under a heavy snowfall warning right now. What happened to spring???!?

I thought Canadians banned spring? j/k It's 87F with 25 mph winds(NOT a gust measurement. gusts are more like 30-35) here.

Yeah, no kidding, what the **** is wrong with the weather in Calgary this spring. I've lived here all my life, so I've been used to the crazy weather, but this spring has just sucked.

This was definitely not in the brochure.... I've only been here 3 years, so I'm still in the "WTF??!" stage. I am told that lasts till about Year 5, at which point apathy sets in. Or despair.

Oh, and if I hear one more person say "so much for global warming!" I am going to slap them with a dead fish. I have one in my freezer specially marked.

So much for global warming!.....













or maybe it is global warming... anyone seen Day After Tomorrow?

Climate change is the buzz word for it now.

In Calgary, we have winter.. then June July & August and then winter again.

Yeah, i've actually been feeling abit of sympathy for you Calgarites as of late. We've had abit of a rough spring up here but nothing compared to y'all. Oh well, so much for global warming.

It's still 60~ here in SoCal, which is getting annoying.

The last I heard we're putting off GW for ten years as we're in a cooling period for at least that long.

Then you'll see!

+1 for climate change. I saw in the news Australia is in drought with some cities being enveloped by the desert expansion.

Toronto got way more snow fall than what we normally get during winter.
Although I think we officially hit spring for a week or two now.

This is La Nina.

Suck it up. I rode motorcycle regularly in snow and only fell once. So saddle up

I too have been here for 3 years, and I feel your pain. Before I moved here I had been told it would be warm ... lovely warm winters, warm summers. Bah. Not even close. Winnipeg, which is notorious for being cold, is much, much warmer and nicer than it is here.

I've been wanting to commute to work (70 kms round trip) for two weeks now but there has been so much rain and snow in that time.



And ... there is no such thing as global warming. There is climate change, but climates are cyclic so they go through natural warming and cooling trends ... natural climate changes. We might have been in a warming trend up till a few years ago, but I'm convinced we're into a cooling trend now.

And some parts of Australia are getting an incredible amount of rain, and have been for about a year now. The drought is over in certain parts there.

To back up my previous claim: https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...efer=worldwide

And also:

https://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-b...tal_ice_extent

https://www.iceagenow.com/Growing_Glaciers.htm

https://www.worldclimatereport.com/in...ming-snow-job/

https://www.johnstonsarchive.net/envi...aterworld.html

thanks for the correction.
I knew that news source, my memory, couldn't be correct.

I have to say that the weather we're experiencing in Calgary isn't particularly bad. The unpredictability comes from our proximity to the mountains. Spring is almost always later than I think it will be, but autumn seems to last forever. I fondly recall going mountain biking during x-mas holidays, with not a spec of snow to be seen, and temperatures above freezing. Two years ago I was playing street hockey on New Year's Eve in front of my house with friends. Nobody wore a jacket - we were all in t-shirts. I would have switched to shorts, but I kept sliding in the gravel.

Edmonton is cold in the winter. Saskatoon is cold in the winter, but is somehow more pleasant. I know a couple of people who grew up in Winnipeg, and they think the winters here are fine, it's the summers that aren't warm enough [no humidity here]. The biggest change in winter that I have noticed is the amount of snow on the streets. Calgary doesn't plough its roads like it used to. Downtown is bone dry two days after a snowfall, but I need to run studs for the next two weeks just to get down my street. No justice...

I spent 13 years in Winnipeg (just moved here 3 years ago). The winters there were cold, but short compared with here, and the heat and humidity of summer was absolutely blissful!! It would start significantly warming up in early April many years, and would continue right to November. It would still hit +30C and higher in September, and into the mid-20s in October. I desperately miss the heat and humidity ... I find it so chilly and so dry here.

I'd move back in a flash if it weren't for my education and the lack of hills there. I do like the mountains here.

We are also under a snowfall warning. Blah!
And -11 to boot for tomorrow morning.
This sucks completely. I will be taking the truck tomorrow........

*taking fish out to thaw*

*making list*

I was in Canmore, AB for a while, back before it became what it is today. In K-country, snow was a real possibility well into June and even July. How much snow is forecast in Calgary?

Science disagrees with you.

Bring on the global warming!
I don't believe in that either.

Fixed

Thanks ... while I think most/all scientists are agreed on climate change (which can be defined in different ways), scientists are divided on the issue of global warming.