All fine here in Albeerta. We normally have a nice early May and then it goes to shit and is nice again after may long weekend.
For those of you who don't know, May long is the traditional celebration of Albeertans for the coming summer. This is where you use the long weekend to do summer things and know in the back of your mind it might snow a bit on you. It's supper fun and leads to great experiences like having to jack the heat all the way up in the camper, or waking up in your tent and being covered in snow. The snow melts pretty quick, sometimes there is so much rain and snow before the long weekend and during it, that fire bans are temporarily lifted.
Yes it snowed two days ago and it might again. But after this weekend we can put our plants in our gardens without them dieing.
Correct, Alberta is famous for a few days of Cold snow as late as June, and Guaranteed a Chinook in the January or February.
Thanks for that info on life in Alberta. Sounds like fun. When does the summer end? Mid July? :)
September it starts to cool off. But it can get warm again in October and we call that an Indian summer. All Halloween costumes are planned to be able to fit over a snow suit just incase.
We get heat waves and get to enjoy the dog days of summer. Low 30's Celsius is our heat wave. But we have seen it climb to 40. That doesn't happen every summer. Just like how our cold snaps can got down to -30 C without windchill. and sometimes -40 without wind chill.
All Halloween costumes are planned to be able to fit over a snow suit just in case.
Now that is funny. I can see a pumpkin outfit working but not a Cinderella costume. :)
-40 without wind chill
I remember both scale F and C meeting somewhere around -40. That's cold!
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