We’re inching closer to the official start of fall, which then brings the inevitable arrival of winter, but it IS still summer after all, although you wouldn’t know it with September snow records already being broken in Alberta.
Temperatures will remain well below seasonal this week and there are more signs of summertime snow by week’s end. More on the timing and chilling details, below.
Cold September air and rounds of snow gave parts of Alberta the “first widespread measured snowfall event” last week.
The Grande Prairie region picked up close to 15 cm through Thursday with the city of Edmonton picking up several centimeters between last week’s system and more weekend snow.
In fact, Edmonton has actually now recorded its snowiest September already with six consecutive days of snowfall and 22 cm reported in total so far this month.
That beat the previous record of 12.9 cm back in 1965.
Now, we are watching for more snow later this week as a couple of waves of moisture move in and the province remains locked into a chilly pattern.
“We’ll start to see a system move through on Thursday bringing the threat for snowfall mainly west of Calgary and up into the Rockies and the Foothills,” says Weather Network meteorologist Erin Wenckstern.
Then as temperatures cool further Thursday night and into Friday morning, there’s the chance for more snow along the QEII between Edmonton and down towards the Calgary region.
“Another wave of moisture comes in again on Friday evening with even more snow potentially falling in Edmonton through Saturday,” says Wenckstern.
The heaviest snow is expected to fall in the Rockies and into the Foothills throughout the duration of these snowy days, although a few centimeters of accumulation isn’t out of the question for Edmonton either.
Read more at Weather Channel
In 1999, riding my motorcycle to Alaska, I was pelted with rain and sleet in Calgary. July 1, Canada Day. I was one cold wet puppy. After that, nothing I read about Alberta weather surprises me. Chinooks, clippers, prairie wildfires, normal.
“nothing I read about Alberta weather surprises me” gave me a good chuckle, thanks.
Mid 1970’s in a fairly new Cougar heading for Vancouver. October somewhere near Edmonton. Had to find a piece of cardboard to put in front of rad. Still had to use a blanket around feet. From southern Ontario. Beautiful country out West.
It is my firm belief that your new Cougar had a thermostat in the cooling system. The thermostat controls the engine block temperature, not a piece of cardboard in front of the rad. The cardboard only helps if there is no thermostat, or the thermostat is stuck open.
I have a lot of experience with cars not getting up to the thermostat’s temperature even though it was working fine. I don’t know about modern cars but it was very common with cars of that period to have the water to heater unit in the cab return to the engine by passing the thermostat. It returns to the radiator and then to the engine. If the weather is very cold this prevents the thermostat from doing its job.
Feel the global warming.
Proving to the facts that the same liberal news rag TIME was going on about New Ice Age and Global Cooling back in the 1970’s as much as they were lying about Global Warming back in the 1990’s
When there is a cooler than average season, and then one warm spell, the alarmists use the warm spell as proof of man-caused warming. This story is the same except in reverse. The western part of Canada (Alberta & BC) for sure had a warmer than average summer- probably much warmer. Now we have a spell that is much cooler. It’s not evidence of anything either way. “Nothing I read about Alberta weather surprises me” definitely describes Alberta weather. In Edmonton, the coldest day of this recent spell was September 13 with a daytime high of 1 Celsius (34 F) Last year on September 13 the daytime high was 29 C (85F)!
Back in ’99, I was told that ’98 was much warmer. I missed out on huge bugs by a year.