12-07-2023, 07:24 AM
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#3881
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Monster Storm
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Calgary
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Are the roads icy at all?
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12-07-2023, 07:26 AM
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#3882
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#1 Goaltender
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Main roads seemed fine. Side streets felt a bit worse on the west side but not terrible.
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12-07-2023, 07:28 AM
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#3883
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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Main roads were wet but not slushy, mostly felt like driving in the rain.
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12-07-2023, 08:15 AM
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#3884
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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Snowfall warning is now gone, Weather Network showing ~2cm when it's all said and done.
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12-07-2023, 08:34 AM
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#3885
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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Probably got 5 inches at my place in the NW but as you get out of the NW the snowfall is less and less as in the NE right now it's just light dusting and slush.
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12-07-2023, 08:45 AM
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#3886
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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As a kid that grew up in Hawkwood I don't miss that at all. Pretty much no snow in Gods Chosen Community of Sunnyside.
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12-07-2023, 09:07 AM
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#3887
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evil of fart
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigtime
As a kid that grew up in Hawkwood I don't miss that at all. Pretty much no snow in Gods Chosen Community of Sunnyside.
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Didn't God wash away Sunnyside in a tsunami of lattes and Yops a few years back?
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12-07-2023, 09:18 AM
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#3888
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigtime
As a kid that grew up in Hawkwood I don't miss that at all. Pretty much no snow in Gods Chosen Community of Sunnyside.
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Same, we were right on top of the drive too. Some harrowing drives up and down that hill my first few winters as a new driver.
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12-07-2023, 09:19 AM
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#3889
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube
Same, we were right on top of the drive too. Some harrowing drives up and down that hill my first few winters as a new driver.
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Going up Hawkwood Hill sideways with the old RWD Volvo, good times!
Shoveling our driveway with insane amounts of snow on it? Not as much fun.
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12-07-2023, 09:20 AM
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#3890
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sliver
Didn't God wash away Sunnyside in a tsunami of lattes and Yops a few years back?
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It simply cleansed us and we built back stronger. Our lattes are now reinforced Dirty Chai types.
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12-07-2023, 09:39 AM
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#3891
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So they cancelled snowmageddon. I wonder how much pressure the people at EC experience when they under or over forecast these things?
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12-07-2023, 10:51 AM
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#3892
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Craig McTavish' Merkin
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Originally Posted by Flabbibulin
So they cancelled snowmageddon. I wonder how much pressure the people at EC experience when they under or over forecast these things?
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Ideally, none. Tracking the atmosphere and predicting what it will do is unimaginably hard to do. They use models with countless variables and tell us what usually happens under expected conditions. Usually they’re right, and they don’t get credit when they are.
Forecasting for a city the size of Calgary sucks too. The West end got a decent dump but the East got very little. That happens all the time. It’s snowing like crazy in Strathmore and I wouldn’t be surprised if they get the 10cm that was forecasted.
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12-07-2023, 11:52 AM
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#3893
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2021
Location: Richmond upon Thames, London
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The warning did say local amounts may vary, so technically they were not wrong.
I wasn't expecting bad roads given that we were coming off 17 and 8 degree days and only dipping down just below 0.
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12-07-2023, 11:55 AM
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#3894
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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Coming down enough now that I'm probably going to go home early to avoid any possible issues, though it looks like the major roads should still be clear by then.
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12-07-2023, 11:59 AM
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#3895
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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Good ol'Environment Canada busting out the 18 degrees 7 days from now.
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12-07-2023, 12:02 PM
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#3896
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2021
Location: Richmond upon Thames, London
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Originally Posted by Bigtime
Good ol'Environment Canada busting out the 18 degrees 7 days from now.
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EC always like to get freaky with their long term forecasts.
I will welcome holiday shopping in shorts, though.
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12-07-2023, 12:11 PM
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#3897
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sylvan Lake
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Flabbibulin
So they cancelled snowmageddon. I wonder how much pressure the people at EC experience when they under or over forecast these things?
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12-07-2023, 01:22 PM
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#3898
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Flabbibulin
So they cancelled snowmageddon.
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Global warming!
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12-07-2023, 02:12 PM
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#3899
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2021
Location: Richmond upon Thames, London
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I wonder if any one was saying that between 1985-1995 when we got all those bare Christmases.
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12-07-2023, 02:19 PM
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#3900
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent
I wonder if any one was saying that between 1985-1995 when we got all those bare Christmases.
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At that time we were rebounding from threats of an ice age and worried about the hole in our ozone layer.
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