Is Calgary a Desert or something??

[Otto-matic]

Originally Posted by Calgary Flames

You'd have an arguement if the weather was actually nice. But a high of 5-8 Degrees isn't even nice... combine that with disgusting brown lawns, gravel all over the roads, and a dry wind at your face.... bleh!

I like snow because it covers my disgusting brown lawn I like my grass a nice green, You may even call me a Hank Hill when it comes to lawns.

[ricosuave]

Originally Posted by Calgary Flames

Who says i'm miserable?

I do love Playing outdoor shinny in the winter. Anyone who plays it would agree that in this country there aren't alot of things better to do in the winter...

All you pansies and your cars... pffft. If I can hack waiting 25 minutes for a bus with -20 weather, come home, have some nice hot soup, grab the skates and stick and head over to the rink at night for a couple hours with some snow coming down... you can too. Or are you too scared to drive?? Or your car will get dirty?

You'd have an arguement if the weather was actually nice. But a high of 5-8 Degrees isn't even nice... combine that with disgusting brown lawns, gravel all over the roads, and a dry wind at your face.... bleh!

I'd prefer my winter to be.... Winter.

sounds like you would rather live in edmonton

[Flames_Gimp]

complaining about a warm winter?

[Flames_Gimp]

look at it this way, you can sit outside and enjoy a nice cold cooler.

[Pagal4321]

Originally Posted by Flames_Gimp

complaining about a warm winter?

Welcome to the world of Jordan. This guy started a thread about how he hated Chinooks...that was back in November, IIRC.

Yea, I don't like driving in snowy cold wether due to ICE and bad road conditions. Not cuz my car will get DIRTY.

[ricosuave]

Originally Posted by Flames_Gimp

look at it this way, you can sit outside and enjoy a nice cold cooler.

zing!

[Flames_Gimp]

Originally Posted by Pagal4321

Welcome to the world of Jordan. This guy started a thread about how he hated Chinooks...that was back in November, IIRC.

ya, I remember that thread.

[Patek23]

I'm neutral, I dont like the weather as it currently is but it's still a hell of a lot better than the freezing cold winter.

And Jordon if your going to bitch about it not being freezing cold and it takes away on your precious shinny, since you've already said you don't have a problem with the bus why dont you hop your ass on one to an indoor arena problem solved right there, because your self-centered "hell" is saving people lives from all of the extra car accidents it causes in the Calgary area.

[Cheese]

Snow...ugh...you can have it Jordan!
Its been POURING rain here in Waterloo today...much like a spring day in March!

[BleedRed]

The ski resorts are excellent best they have been in years. Nice try though to the tool who thinks what happens in Calgary is what happenans in the mountains.

[the_only_turek_fan]

Originally Posted by habernac

this is a dream winter for guys like me that bike to work everyday. We'll just get screwed in May/June again, though. I can feel it.

I am a runner, so I know what you are talking about.

This winter is just awsome! It hasnt gone below -10 for like 99% of the winter season.

I can still run outside and not freeze my ass off!

[Ozy_Flame]

Apparently the warm weather this winter isn't due to climate change or global warming, it's a shift in the oceanic(?) ridge that has happened before in the past. This is why Vancouver is getting dumped on, Calgary is getting and early spring, and Europe is getting below-average temperatures. I will try and find a link to this article, as I heard it from a local meteorologist, as well as having read it in an article.

Just remember that this change in weather isn't all rosy. People in Moscow are suffering because of this, and farmers are going to have an extremely aggrevating summer due to a lack of consistent moisture.

[Incinerator]

Originally Posted by Calgary Flames

All you pansies and your cars... pffft. If I can hack waiting 25 minutes for a bus with -20 weather, come home, have some nice hot soup, grab the skates and stick and head over to the rink at night for a couple hours with some snow coming down... you can too. Or are you too scared to drive?? Or your car will get dirty?

You'd have an arguement if the weather was actually nice. But a high of 5-8 Degrees isn't even nice... combine that with disgusting brown lawns, gravel all over the roads, and a dry wind at your face.... bleh!

Some of us actually have to get to school & work on time so no, we can't spare 25 minutes waiting for the Calgary Transit to get its ass in gear everyday. Yes, I hate it when the snow stops and my car is so filthy I can't see out of the back window so I wait a couple days and wash it then it snows the morning after again I also happen to hate idiots who forget how to drive as soon as an inch of snow falls (soccer moms in Lexus RS300s I'm looking at you).

And 5-8 degrees happens to be quite nice in this town's standards. It's not too warm and it's not too cold, that dry wind you speak of is a welcoming breeze to me, among many others.

[habernac]

I still love how there's so much freaking gravel out there and no snow. We aren't running the damn plows, how about getting the street cleaners out there instead, City Hall? And aren't they called sanding trucks? Why do they have gravel in them? Brand new truck has 3 cracks in the damn windshield already.

[Eddie Bronze]

Being that I work outdoors, so far at least I can say this is the best winter ever. Also, you like to play shinny? Go play then. There's tons of ice, I've played on a pond here in the city each of the past couple weekends.

[metallicat]

Originally Posted by habernac

I still love how there's so much freaking gravel out there and no snow. We aren't running the damn plows, how about getting the street cleaners out there instead, City Hall? And aren't they called sanding trucks? Why do they have gravel in them? Brand new truck has 3 cracks in the damn windshield already.

I know that they can't use the water that street cleaners normally use because it would just freeze and mess up the trucks, but they should be out cleaning main roads. They do it in downtown Edmonton all year round...at least the hills. And phone the City of Calgary about your windshield. At least here, the city shells out TONS of money to people who make claims about windshields being cracked by sanders. It's worth a try.

[troutman]

Could be bad for trout, and therefore bad for troutman, if we don't get more moisture by spring time.

Bad for farmers too.

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by troutman

Could be bad for trout, and therefore bad for troutman, if we don't get more moisture by spring time.

Bad for farmers too.

Yeah this is pretty bad for rivers and the lakes too.

I like snow. It's good for all that water it leaves behind when it goes through the change of life. I'm not particularly fond of living in Browntown for 6 months a year either.

Brutally cold winter with grey skies and 10 feet of snow are no fun but living through an elaborate production of "Springtime In January" isn't good either. There must be a happy medium and minus 10 with snow on the ground (and hopefully sun in the sky) is happy enough for me for a few months a year.

[Jiggy_12]

This weather hasn't been stopping me from playing outdoor hockey, the rink I go to is just fine. In fact, best I've seen the ice there in years. It still gets below zero at night and thats enough time for the ice to re-freeze.

Oh, and people not getting killed in car accidents is cool too. This weather helps that.

[Antithesis]

I'm enjoying this weather. I've plugged my car in once this winter and I probably didn't really have to.

It may not be tropical, but temperatures of 0-5 celsius are sure a lot better than the -20s that we've had in Januarys past.