First major snow of the season in Alberta (temperature, cities, frost)

[Cambium]

Originally Posted by Ed's Mountain

Try this one

Yup, thanks..

Not just Alberta... Check out the snow total per 6z GFS. A foot of snow for Central Ontario thru Friday morning. lol. Doubt it. Lets say 1-4" for now. lol

[Cambium]

" Snow falling this morning on the estates of Bearspaw Alberta, just NW of Calgary "



https://twitter.com/Protka/status/50...037824/photo/1

[Cambium]

Current Map & where it's snowing right now... Wind chills in the 20s/30s during the day! Love it.

Tight surface pressure gradient there wind should be picking up in that area.



I see under remarks they are reporting 1.8MM Icing is that past hour? Do they mean snow? or liquid amount? Or Ice?

[Ariete]

Truly amazing, I have to say. My country spans up to 70N and we haven't seen a single snowfall yet. Higher grounds around 2000-3000 ft in the north have seen a freeze, but no snow. Down here at 60N the lows have been around 50F.

[Bottletree]

Brown grass in September????

http://trafficcam.calgary.ca/loc53.jpg

[dunno what to put here]

Way too early for snow. And they'll be back to the mid twenties by next week. I like variation, but that's too much.

[Bottletree]

Originally Posted by dunno what to put here

Way too early for snow. And they'll be back to the mid twenties by next week. I like variation, but that's too much.

It also kills the vegetation and makes it look dull.

Here the grass is green as can be (best grass quality in years because of dry past few summers) and will be for a month at least.
Hate the brown grass look.

[Zephanoa]

Hurray for snow! How I miss you so!

[Joe90]

This doesn't seem like news. Spirit river is at 2100 ft above sea level.

Makes me glad to live in an area without snow. Snow just seems depressing, unless one is on holiday.

[arctic_gardener]

Originally Posted by Joe90

This doesn't seem like news. Spirit river is at 2100 ft above sea level.

2100 ft ain't much, and most of the non-mountainous regions of AB and SK are in the 1000 to 2000 ft range. It's still unusual (but not unheard of) this early in the year.

More impressive were the August 22, 1992 snowfalls all over Alberta (with a hard freeze of -5 degrees C in some low-elevation areas) and the August 2, 2002 snowfall in 1800-ft Red Deer. August 2 is just a week after the statistically warmest day of the year.