Category: Weather

  • Fire Weather – links

    I just finished reading Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast by John Vaillant, and wanted a place to keep the links mentioned in the epilogue. This is not a review, but this really is a book you should put on your to-read list, especially if you live in Alberta. It tells the story of…

  • My highlights from the exhibits floor at ALA11

    I'm here in New Orleans for another night, finishing up a visit to ALA. I was here primarily to participate on the Summon Advisory Board, but also spent today in the exhibits hall. If you're reading this in time to take advantage, here are a couple booths you should hit while here, depending of course…

  • The Inevitable

    Choose your poison, C or F, it's just gonna be damn cold!

  • Going down…

    Just in time for the weekend, of course.

  • Brrrr

    That’s C on the left and F on the right.  Wind chill on the way to work was reported as -49 C Actually not complaining; it’s been a very mild winter until right about now…

  • A weather report

    It’s been a while since we’ve had a local weather report from the Distant Librarian.  don’t take this as any kind of complaint, ’cause up until about a week ago it’s been positively balmy up here.  This is the place you’re going to want to be when global warming really hits!  But right now, the…

  • It’s coming…

    Too busy to blog about anything substantial these days, but I needed to pop on and note that flurries were spotted in the air this AM.  Mark the date – September 19, first “snowfall”…  Might try a linkdump later in the week.  Until then…

  • All clear here…

    I hereby do solemny swear to abstain from complaining about the weather in Calgary for the rest of the month.  I went to grad school in Buffalo and only had to deal with a couple of big winter storms.  Nothing this early.  Buffalo was hit overnight with as much as two feet of snow by…

  • Yay, no snow down here

    Well so far the forecasters have been wrong; while it’s damn chilly and we did get rain all night, so far there’s no snow here in Calgary.  Took a peek at the webcams on the ski hills in Banff, and they did indeed get some snow.  You know what though?  I forget that of course…

  • The all-important end-of-Summer weather update

    Gosh it was a nice day today.  Sure wish it was going to last.  Here’s the forecast for the next few days, presented in both C and F for your horror: I’m not sure what that icon for Saturday is – it’s either ghosts or blowing snow.  Either way… shudder.