The Ongoing Super Mega Weather Thread v3

[Brendone]

Originally Posted by jayswin

I know there's people that suffer from depression over grey skies and struggle in Vancouver. Does anyone suffer from seeing Calgary as an ugly city most of Fall/Winter/Spring and really relies on the green, lush period between late May and June?

I do, I can feel it now over the past two years. Like I wait for that lush, fresh, beautiful look and feel of our city that makes us awesome for a couple months. And now the last few years it just feels like you get this hot, messy, forest fire smog look to our city almost as soon as summer starts and it actually affects my mental health a little.

I never knew that in myself before. But the hazy, ugly **** look of our city during the now endless fire season actually takes away from my health and enjoyment of the city, and I realize my brain has been waiting for the lush, fresh, full wetland scene all fall/winter/spring and it doesn't really come anymore.

This is why zero-scaping just doesn’t work for me. After so much brown and grey over the winter/spring, the few months of lush green lawn and trees feels so refreshing. It’s like waking up from hibernation.

We just did a three week trip down through Yellowstone, Moab and Zion, and as great as those desert and canyon experiences are we were so happy to start seeing “green” as we turned north (cold water from the tap was sure missed as well). No way I want the snow to melt, revealing more brown and grey. I love seeing the lawn come to life.

I have family down in Arizona and I find it depressing.

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by jayswin

I know undercoverbrother wants his hot and dry oasis where the land dries up and dies around him with smoggy/hazy days in an ugly city, with fires closing in, but I hope this rain brings a really wonderful, clear, fresh day tomorrow.

Air quality kind of crappy right now.

https://map.purpleair.com/1/l/i/mAQI...0812/-113.7611

[Paulie Walnuts]

Yeah when I saw the sun was bright orange I knew the smoke was coming in.

Sucks that we get so few days of this great green and we live with the continuous fire smoke for the last few years.

[Bigtime]

Air just getting worse, jayswin cursed us!

[timun]

Dammit jayswin! I blame you!

[Bigtime]

Yay(?) N95 mask wearing ride home.

[DoubleK]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

Yay(?) N95 mask wearing ride home.

I thought it was just me, found it really smoky at lunch.

Can't quite taste the smoke yet, that's when you know it's really bad.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

In summer it should be hot.


In winter is should be cold with snow so I can ski.


The weather should be seasonally appropriate.

Aren't you English? You come from the land where the weather sucks all the time and everywhere always?

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Locke

Aren't you English? You come from the land where the weather sucks all the time and everywhere always?

I successfully escaped Old Blighty when I was 5, I am completely assimilated into you colonial ways.

I am the white, blonde, blue eyed immigrant that walks among you.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

I successfully escaped Old Blighty when I was 5, I am completely assimilated into you colonial ways.

I am the white, blonde, blue eyed immigrant that walks among you.

Get him!!

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Locke

Get him!!

[jayswin]

Lol, that was good.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Bow River at its lowest level since 1911. City to impose water restrictions....

https://livewirecalgary.com/2023/08/...-restrictions/

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

Bow River at its lowest level since 1911. City to impose water restrictions....

https://livewirecalgary.com/2023/08/...-restrictions/

Seems like a bizarre rule when it comes to watering a garden. One day per week is allowed up to 2 hours. I'm not going to soak my garden once a week for two hours. I water my garden beds about 10 minutes per day so if I continue at that same rate I'm still under the max allowed of 2 hours once a week.

[CarlLester]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

Seems like a bizarre rule when it comes to watering a garden. One day per week is allowed up to 2 hours. I'm not going to soak my garden once a week for two hours. I water my garden beds about 10 minutes per day so if I continue at that same rate I'm still under the max allowed of 2 hours once a week.

Do you water your garden with a sprinkler? You are still allowed to water with a hose and spray nozzle

[undercoverbrother]

I'm glad it is hot

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Hopefully this heat wave kills off some of the weak, homeless and elderly.

[Brendone]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

I'm glad it is hot

Truck hit 45c pulling into Moab the other week. You would have been in heaven. Im not a fan of swimming in ball soup, so wasn’t for me.

[Brendone]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

Hopefully this heat wave kills off some of the weak, homeless and elderly.

Someone doesn’t care about the starving polar bears

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by CarlLester

Do you water your garden with a sprinkler? You are still allowed to water with a hose and spray nozzle

Soaker hose. Looks like water with a regular hose and nozzle or wand is fine though and doesn't have any restrictions so I'll do that.