The Ongoing Super Mega Weather Thread v3

[woob]

My family and I have done the following this summer: outdoor swimming lessons (2 weeks, some days including sunburn!), 4 mountain hikes, Calaway park multiple times, outdoor soccer camp, Stampede breakfasts, and walked 5 of the big parks in Calgary. And on most of these outings it was busy with other people. Not a ####ty summer at all.

Yes the rains impact things (like you said with Folk Fest) but there’s been lots of opportunities to do things as well, from the end of school. Canadians do things in inclement weather. Obviously it’s not ideal and we’d all love a warm, sunny time. But it’s been anything but a ####ty summer.

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

Forest fire smoke typically comes from hundreds of km away, where the weather is different. Rain in the Calgary region has almost zero impact on the amount of smoke we get.

Heavy rain does reduce PM2.5 levels locally.

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by woob

My family and I have done the following this summer: outdoor swimming lessons

These are surprisingly great on rainy days. They crank the pool temperatures to compensate.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

There’s a world of difference between what an individual person can do, and what people in the aggregate are likely to do.

The astute observer will have noticed that there’s a dramatic variance in how many people you see doing stuff outside on any given day, and that this variance correlates strongly with the weather. They will also notice that far more people take time off work in July and August than in April and May - this is conjecture, but maybe it’s because it’s typically hot and sunny in July and August, and most people find that nice weather to do stuff outside in.

We’re well past the ‘enough moisture to stave off drought’ stage and into the ‘bad summer for all sorts of organizations and people’ phase.

The folk festival will likely fall well short of sellouts this weekend. That will impact their gate receipts, which in turn will reduce how much money they have to spend on acts next year. I expect facilities like Heritage Park will also suffer from low attendance and revenue this summer. Same with events like charity runs. The hundreds of cancellations in sports leagues have already been mentioned.

This is shaping up to be a ####ty summer for all but some contrarian weirdos.

Rain, shine, this doesn’t read like someone who spends much time outside either way.

Go for a run, nerd.