Tinpusher63

And you know they're Calgarian, how?

Stinkypup

Because the vast majority have the suppliers name on the plates

Tinpusher63

You can call it sleet if you like but it was hail. You don't get snow at those temperatures, just plain does not happen.

As a qualified weather observer for 30 years I do know what I'm talking about.

Tinpusher63

Hmm, detective Stinky scores one for team Okanagan.

Stinkypup

Steve_

The weather has been really odd, back in May it was scorching, far hotter than I can remember. And July it has rained more than it normally does. The Stampede was washed out.

Anyway, talking about rapid temperature drops, I remember back a few years ago, the temperature dropped from around 12 to a few degrees below in about a minute, I was driving down 22X and the temp gauge on my car just plunged, and then the windshield cracked! I assume it was because it was laminated and the glass on the outside just cooled down too quickly. I thought something must have hit the windshield but the guy at speedy glass said he couldn't find any sign of an impact.

Steve_

I think it was early 2008, it went from -45 on Tuesday, to 8 on Wednesday then -23 on Thursday. See if you love that.

Steve_

That was the crappiest summer in Calgary for a very long time. And I'm including Snowtember.

Photoplex

Yup - terrible summer

MillieF

I visited Calgary many times before coming to live in Canada. My MIL told me proudly how '"we've had snow in every month of the year" and the I visited one Easter...with a suitcase of pretty clothes, only to be snowed in for quite a few days. It was the weather that really put me off the place! So I moved to the east coast...where we have few surprises...it's filthy hot and humid in summer and frozen solid for six months between that period.

...we are actually enjoying a few really nice days presently, where it's chilly in the morning and evening and about 20 degrees in the daytime if only it would stay like this, for more than a few days, I could cope with Canada!

BristolUK

I've been here over 11 years now and I walk around in Summer still disbelieving it's the same place that gets buried in snow every winter.

Likewise, come March and April when you've had enough it's equally hard to believe we get the glorious days of summer and autumn.

My wife's outlook was a bit different. She couldn't wait for the humid days of summer to be over so she could bitch about winter (and vice versa). Her words, not mine.