Category: Weather
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.