In December, I drove from Lloydminster to Medicine Hat on Highway 41. Around Oyen, there were fire trucks out in a farmer's field putting out a small fire. The field had spontaneously combusted.
On St Patrick's Day, I was working in Lethbridge, and spent most of the afternoon pushing people out of the parking lot until I realized that if I didn't leave soon, there wouldn't be anyone left to push me out, and I was driving a little Ford Tempo at the time. When I got home, the wind was swirling in front of my place so badly, that there was a bare patch of grass on the lawn, but about a 4 foot tall pile of snow on the sidewalk.
I was going to UofL that year. My honda civic had chains so I put them on and owned it. Was out maneuvering large 4x4's. Fun times.
Not necessarily. If the mountains stay below freezing it could mean a lot of snow.
Edit: Just saw the articles you added.
My observation has been that Banff gets dumped on, Castle can go either way, Fernie/Kimberley/Red all get rained out and Kicking Horse is amazing to about mid way down. Elevation is king.
Right - and we're usually cold enough here that even if it's warmer than usual, it's still cold enough for snow. But we shall see.
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My observation has been that Banff gets dumped on, Castle can go either way, Fernie/Kimberley/Red all get rained out and Kicking Horse is amazing to about mid way down. Elevation is king.
Yeah my friends and I are trying to plan our annual "Kimberly" ski trip but last year there was literally a slight dusting of ice so we're debating going some where else with a higher elevation but this list of the highest base elevations in Canada doesn't leave us with many choices.
Basically, we either have no ski in/ski out cabin style accommodations or we have a 7 hour drive ahead of us, or we bite the bullet and just go to Kimberly/Fernie.
Warm waters bring a new friend to local beaches here. The article is subscriber based so I cannot provide a link
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or the first time in 30 years or so, a poisonous sea snake has been spotted on a Southern California beach, drawn far north of its usual habitat by what naturalists think are the warming ocean waters because of El Niņo.
A yellow-bellied sea snake, Pelamis platurus, was found Friday at the high tide line at Silverstrand Beach in Oxnard by a surfer, according to officials at the Heal the Bay organization and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
It’s the first known report of the species in Ventura County, and the northernmost record along the Pacific Coast of North America, they reported.
