Calgary Tops for Weather Comfort

[undercoverbrother]

I find this hard to believe

http://www.calgarysun.com/2013/01/08...eather-comfort

Alberta has held in past years and continues to hold the top spot in a ranking of the country’s provinces and territories when it comes to most comfortable weather, said David Phillips, senior climatologist with Environment Canada.
Phillips said the provinces and territories received points based on how they stacked up in a number of weather categories that are considered to factor into a climate’s overall level of comfort.
The categories include mildest winters, springs and autumns, fewest wet days, lowest overall humidity, sunniest days, most hours of sunshine, etc.
The fact Alberta is home to some of Canada’s sunniest locales certainly helps it maintain its reign.

[You Need a Thneed]

I don't find it hard to believe at all.

[troutman]

Wouldn't the Okanagan beat Calgary in all those categories?

[Ozy_Flame]

Calgary summers are extremely manageable. No hot humidity. Winters we obviously get a reprieve from regularly, and you can't complain about the sunshine here.

God forbid March though. The dirtiest, ####tiest month of the year that teases you with pleasant spring temperatures but crushes your dreams with -20 wind blasts and 10 inches of snow.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by troutman

Wouldn't the Okanagan beat Calgary in all those categories?

Nope, too effin hot in July/August. Not comfortable at all.

[TopChed]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

Nope, too effin hot in July/August. Not comfortable at all.

Plus there aren't too many sunny days during the winter.

[bc-chris]

i think this is important to remember....

Phillips said it’s important to remember he’s “averaged the hell out of the statistics” as provinces and territories are large areas with variable weather conditions, so the areas where the majority of the populations are may fare worse or better than the provincial average.

there's a lot of times when on the news they show the provincial weather that a lot of bc is gross, but the okanagan is rockin'!

....and just so i don't get a 'you suck' post from undercoverbrother, right now in kelowna we've got close to a foot of snow over the last couple days and a snow fall warning for possibly another 10" by wednesday afternoon!!! yeee ha!!!

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by bc-chris

i think this is important to remember....

there's a lot of times when on the news they show the provincial weather that a lot of bc is gross, but the okanagan is rockin'!

....and just so i don't get a 'you suck' post from undercoverbrother, right now in kelowna we've got close to a foot of snow over the last couple days and a snow fall warning for possibly another 10" by wednesday afternoon!!! yeee ha!!!

I stand by all my prior posts.............

YOU SUCK

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by TopChed

Plus there aren't too many sunny days during the winter.

Calgary had an unusual amount of cloudy overcast days early this fall/winter. After a week of it, it was unbearable. Love Calgary's sunny winters. They make those bitter cold snaps more then livable.

[zukes]

Other than the amount of sun, Calgary has nothing on SW Ontario. I'll take the super humidity in the summer to not have snow on the ground on Labour Day. You can golf here from early to mid March to mid to late November. Last year was warmer than usual in the winter, but we only had 15 days when the high didn't reach 0, and only 5 where it didn't reach -5.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by zukes

Other than the amount of sun, Calgary has nothing on (insert where I currently live)..

Thread over.

[Cowperson]

Originally Posted by troutman

Wouldn't the Okanagan beat Calgary in all those categories?

I spent a winter once in Kelowna. Constantly cloudy, wet, gloomy and mostly miserable.

Cowperson

[zukes]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

Thread over.

Thanks for that! Weather is obviously a personal preference. If Canada owned land in Florida, I'd live there. Not a fan of winter. Having lived in Calgary until I was 16, and lived here now for almost 20 years, I know that I just couldn't go back. Oh, I forgot about the wind, yuck!

[Hemi-Cuda]

i like Calgary weather other than the fact that our winter lasts the longest in the country (as far as the major cities go). i really hate waking up in mid April to -10 and a blizzard

[JD]

Well if you look at the criteria they use, it's not terribly surprising...
Low humidity, moderate temperatures, hardly any wet days, sunny most of the time. They should take wind into account and southern Alberta would probably drop significantly!

[Bertuzzied]

Calgary weather is the best for comic collecting! Suck it BC Chris and your BC humidity!

hahaha. remember what happened last time when you 'bragged' about your weather? 3 straight days of rain for you and Calgary was sunny and warmer. hahaha

[bc-chris]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

Calgary weather is the best for comic collecting! Suck it BC Chris and your BC humidity!

hahaha. remember what happened last time when you 'bragged' about your weather? 3 straight days of rain for you and Calgary was sunny and warmer. hahaha

humidity... ummmm

Today, the Thompson Okanagan region is renowned for its golf courses, farms and orchards, ski resorts and vineyards as well as the wildly varied landscape. The highest mountain in the Canadian Rockies is here, as is a waterfall twice the height of Niagara Falls and Canada's only true desert environment.

http://www.hellobc.com/thompson-okanagan.aspx


i try not to talk about the weather in kelowna on cp much as some people tend to get hostile! and like you mentioned, we got rain!! ha! ha!

[Minnie]

Which waterfall?

[evman150]

What an incredibly flawed "study". What use is judging by province? So Atlin and Fort St. John count the same as Vancouver, Victoria, and Kelowna? Sheesh.

Where is the most comfortable place weather-wise in Canada? Here's a hint: There's only one place in Canada that's classified (Koppen) as "sub-tropical".

[FanIn80]

There's more to Alberta than Calgary. Southern AB is actually quite nice in the winter. Lethbridge is pretty much a permanent chinook for instance.