08-27-2010, 11:30 AM
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#361
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Memento Mori
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Yes, it gets cold here.
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08-27-2010, 11:41 AM
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#362
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Shazam
Calgary gets down to -40C in winter. I'd give my soul for just -20C here in winter.
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The last time it was below -35 C was January 1998.
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08-27-2010, 11:57 AM
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#363
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Crash and Bang Winger
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Originally Posted by malcolmk14
The last time it was below -35 C was January 1998.
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Its all those damn people and their windchill, "feels like" temperature nonesense. They think its -45 any time its chilly out.
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08-27-2010, 12:00 PM
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#364
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CrunchBite
Its all those damn people and their windchill, "feels like" temperature nonesense. They think its -45 any time its chilly out.
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Fully agreed. It's like the humidex people "down east". "It was 40 degrees today." No it wasn't. It was 29 and muggy.
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08-27-2010, 12:02 PM
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#365
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RANDOM USER TITLE CHANGE
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: South Calgary
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Cold is one thing, but getting snowfall into May and June? Utterly ridiculous.
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08-27-2010, 12:19 PM
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#367
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ducay
So assuming we're finally over the hail
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Great, now it's going to hail this weekend.
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08-27-2010, 12:45 PM
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#368
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Memento Mori
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Quote:
Originally Posted by malcolmk14
The last time it was below -35 C was January 1998.
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It was -35C in January 2005.
Calgary is in zone 3, which means it can get down to -40C. Of course it could get even colder, but that is the expected low.
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08-27-2010, 01:15 PM
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#369
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Vancouver
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Zone 3, is that like DEFCON 3? Aeassome.
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08-27-2010, 02:33 PM
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#370
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by zarrell
^You must have missed last September then. I remember working in High River near the end of the month and it was 36. I can only hope it doesn't reach 30 until next summer. Honestly, what is it about the heat that people love? There is nothing you cant do outside at 30 that you can do at 20. One is just a lot more comfortable than the other.
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This is a great post and I couldn't agree more! Yesterday was +32 and there was 4 vehicles at the Glenfield parking lot in Fish Creek Park. It was really odd as there are usually 20-30 vehicles there on cooler days. I don't think people like the heat as much as they complain and anytime we get heat waves here people complain and they sell out of fans etc. I think we have a great climate for outdoor living and was up at 2,100 meters today and it was +15 maybe +20? which is just about perfect! If it was +30 out there today it wouldn't have been as enjoyable. Depends what you want to do with Summer I guess....
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08-27-2010, 03:05 PM
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#371
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Sector 7G
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Originally Posted by macker
This is a great post and I couldn't agree more! Yesterday was +32 and there was 4 vehicles at the Glenfield parking lot in Fish Creek Park. It was really odd as there are usually 20-30 vehicles there on cooler days. I don't think people like the heat as much as they complain and anytime we get heat waves here people complain and they sell out of fans etc. I think we have a great climate for outdoor living and was up at 2,100 meters today and it was +15 maybe +20? which is just about perfect! If it was +30 out there today it wouldn't have been as enjoyable. Depends what you want to do with Summer I guess....
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Yes sir, the only things I can think are enjoyable in that heat are basically anything involving water/swimming/beaches and/or patios later in the night when its still 20 something degrees. But for actual exercise and outdoors activities anything 20-25 is perfect.
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08-27-2010, 03:25 PM
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#372
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Not a casual user
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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Originally Posted by Ducay
So assuming we're finally over the hail, what was the final tally of hail days in Calgary this year? Im guess at least 9
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I've been watching weather and all the hail that hit Calgary. Here in High River we go nothing in the way of hail or heavy downpurs of rain this summer 
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08-27-2010, 04:17 PM
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#373
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Calgary
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Yesterday was awesome, definitely not too hot, suck it up you babies.
Need more hot days like that
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08-27-2010, 04:19 PM
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#374
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Not a casual user
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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Originally Posted by FlamesKickAss
Yesterday was awesome, definitely not too hot, suck it up you babies.
Need more hot days like that
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Temps in the low 20's work for me. It's makes for great golfing weather where you're not sweating it out on the course 
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08-27-2010, 04:33 PM
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#375
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wins 10 internets
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: slightly to the left
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Shazam
Calgary gets down to -40C in winter. I'd give my soul for just -20C here in winter.
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-40C with no humidity feels about the same as -20C with lots of humidity
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08-27-2010, 04:43 PM
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#376
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Lifetime Suspension
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
-40C with no humidity feels about the same as -20C with lots of humidity
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The same way minus 5 feels cold in November, but feels warm in Feb.
Last year at the Edmonton Airport it was -46 @ 86% humidity. Alberta is not as dry as the whiners that always bringing up humidity think.
How humid do you think it is when the fog is coming off a river @ -40 ?
It is often very foggy when it's that cold. But it's a dry fog 
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08-29-2010, 11:13 AM
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#377
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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UUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH! !!!!!!!
So effin cold outside! 
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08-29-2010, 11:30 AM
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#378
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First Line Centre
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I dont even bother to book holiday time to stay around here.
I just bank my time and go for about 4-5 weeks during the winter.
It seems like most days now you just have to laugh at it or it will just suck your soul.
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08-29-2010, 11:31 AM
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#379
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Disenfranchised
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Originally Posted by Pinner
Last year at the Edmonton Airport it was -46 @ 86% humidity. Alberta is not as dry as the whiners that always bringing up humidity think.
How humid do you think it is when the fog is coming off a river @ -40 ?
It is often very foggy when it's that cold. But it's a dry fog |
As far as weather forecasts and condition reporting goes, the type of humitidy they are referencing is relative humidity as opposed to absolute humidity.
What this means is that 86% humidity in the winter is different from 86% humidity in the summer. Cold air is less able to hold water within it than warmer air is.
I think you're not really understanding what is meant by the term humidity as it relates to the weather.
Your (and many people's) defnition is: how much water is in the air, as if this was the same at all times.
The proper definition of relative humidity is: how much water is in the air as compared to the total possible amount it could hold, which changes based on air temperature.
Therefore, yes, Calgary is as dry as people who complain about humidity claim it to be.
Last edited by Antithesis; 08-29-2010 at 11:35 AM.
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08-29-2010, 11:33 AM
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#380
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: 51.04177 -114.19704
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Antithesis
As far as weather forecasts and condition reporting goes, the type of humitidy they are referencing is relative humidity as opposed to absolute humidity.
What this means is that 86% humidity in the winter is different from 86% humidity in the summer. Cold air is less able to hold water within it than warmer air is.
I think you're not really understanding what is meant by the term humidity as it relates to the weather.
Your (and many people's) defnition is: how much water is in the air.
The proper definition of relative humidity is: how much water is in the air as compared to the total possible amount it could hold.
Therefore, yes, Calgary is as dry as people who complain about humidity claim it to be.
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Pinner - Wrong about humidity and 4-way stops since 1902.
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