02-03-2025, 02:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Jacks
I seem to remember in the fall hearing that this was going to be a nasty cold winter, so far it's been pretty pleasant overall. Even this "cold" snap is only supposed to last a few days then we are back to single digit -'s.
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I don't know about colder winters, but I thought El Nino winters were supposed to be more temperate and mild with potential for larger snow dumps due to the warmer air stream meeting colder temps?
About a week of sustained -30s ish temps are relatively normal. Hopefully once this cold snap is over, it's back to relatively OK/reasonable winter temps?
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02-03-2025, 02:17 PM
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#6662
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Join Date: Mar 2015
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Some of it comes down to shutting the heat off on the weekends, then turning them on around 8am and expecting the system to warm up a massive thermal mass. This then strains the system because it has to work so hard, and then poof. Dumb to do, but they never adjust for cold weather.
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02-03-2025, 03:05 PM
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#6663
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Originally Posted by Ironhorse
A balmy 12C in my office building this morning...
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So...sandals and Hawaiian shirt day?
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02-03-2025, 11:31 PM
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#6664
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Join Date: Oct 2021
Location: Richmond upon Thames, London
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Originally Posted by DoubleF
I don't know about colder winters, but I thought El Nino winters were supposed to be more temperate and mild with potential for larger snow dumps due to the warmer air stream meeting colder temps?
About a week of sustained -30s ish temps are relatively normal. Hopefully once this cold snap is over, it's back to relatively OK/reasonable winter temps?
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Since november we've avoided the real cold outside of maybe a dozen acumulative days of cold spurts and we're 6 weeks out from the Equinox.
It's been a miraculously merciful winter for alberta.
Even this -20 weather isn't nearly as bad as it gets in the prairies.
If this is sustained for a bit I can't really complain. The holidays + whole of January could've passed as early November.
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02-04-2025, 07:37 AM
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#6665
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I'll gladly take this weather for a week or two if it means we would get a nice spring but it feels like it's been a long time since Calgary has had a really nice spring. Spring is the one season that I feel Calgary doesn't get compared to most cities in the Canada.
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02-04-2025, 07:53 AM
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Originally Posted by DoubleF
Yeah, around 14-16C in our office too. Luckily we have electric heaters and have an idea how to try and jump start our furnace while we wait for the HVAC guy.
I think high efficiency furnaces with their air intake and exhaust pipes are more likely to suck in Calgary type powder snow during snow fall or flurries. This is a problem if those pipes are somewhere they can't warm up to the ambient temperatures indoors and you like using the HVAC fan to balance out the temperatures.
I wonder if in some cases, increasing the height of these pipes from 3-4 feet off the ground outdoors to something like 5-6 feet off the ground could help reduce the odds the intake clogs up by sucking in random stuff blowing around in our normal weather situations.
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Frost can build up on the pipe bug screens and cut the airflow enough to cause problems also.
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02-04-2025, 06:16 PM
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#6667
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Calgary
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Looks like it's only a 4-day cold snap. Very manageable. It's when it stretches to 10+ days that it gets a bit tougher to manage.
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02-04-2025, 11:19 PM
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#6668
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I'll gladly take this weather for a week or two if it means we would get a nice spring but it feels like it's been a long time since Calgary has had a really nice spring. Spring is the one season that I feel Calgary doesn't get compared to most cities in the Canada.
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Ya spring kinda sucks. The first few teases of good weather are nice, but then reverting to cold+wet+windy several times before early summer is painful. The week(s) of blustery 0-5C days in late April are more annoying than the weather this week.
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02-05-2025, 05:19 AM
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Originally Posted by DoubleF
Yeah, around 14-16C in our office too. Luckily we have electric heaters and have an idea how to try and jump start our furnace while we wait for the HVAC guy.
I think high efficiency furnaces with their air intake and exhaust pipes are more likely to suck in Calgary type powder snow during snow fall or flurries. This is a problem if those pipes are somewhere they can't warm up to the ambient temperatures indoors and you like using the HVAC fan to balance out the temperatures.
I wonder if in some cases, increasing the height of these pipes from 3-4 feet off the ground outdoors to something like 5-6 feet off the ground could help reduce the odds the intake clogs up by sucking in random stuff blowing around in our normal weather situations.
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Electrical shop calling in a furnace guy? Phfff, what is this world coming too.
Some respect restored if you jump started the unit. Extra credit if you managed to turn it up to 11.
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02-05-2025, 07:27 AM
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#6670
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Location: California
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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
Ya spring kinda sucks. The first few teases of good weather are nice, but then reverting to cold+wet+windy several times before early summer is painful. The week(s) of blustery 0-5C days in late April are more annoying than the weather this week.
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The Covid year was the worst. I think we had precipitation, most of it snow for the first 15 days of April. That’s the only year I turned into a weather whiner.
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02-05-2025, 08:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I'll gladly take this weather for a week or two if it means we would get a nice spring but it feels like it's been a long time since Calgary has had a really nice spring. Spring is the one season that I feel Calgary doesn't get compared to most cities in the Canada.
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Spring has always been awful in Calgary. The snow-thaw-freeze cycle that makes it treacherous to walk anywhere. The puddles, brown grit and gravel covering everything. It’s just ugly and gross.
And a mild Calgary winter is just more of the same. Which is why I prefer lots of snow and sustained -5 to -15 weather in the winter. It’s just more pleasant than an endless thaw-freeze cycle.
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02-05-2025, 05:21 PM
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There's so much snow it's very difficult to tell where the road is and where curbs are etc, and that has been the downfall of a lot of people in the northeast this afternoon.
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02-05-2025, 05:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Reggie28
Electrical shop calling in a furnace guy? Phfff, what is this world coming too.
Some respect restored if you jump started the unit. Extra credit if you managed to turn it up to 11.
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We're not an electrical shop. I just did some diagnostic trick or something that I've heard HVAC people mention to try.
It turned out to be something completely idiotic. It was a dirty filter totally blocking airflow. Another HVAC tech AND ATCO had previously inspected the furnaces before and told me the unit were designed to work without a filter (which made no sense to me).
I'm contacting the landlord to get access to the furnaces going forward to replace the filters myself. This way we don't freeze our asses off waiting for a tech and then paying $350 service calls for something as dumb as a furnace filter replacement.
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02-05-2025, 05:48 PM
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02-05-2025, 05:57 PM
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#6675
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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Spring has always been awful in Calgary. The snow-thaw-freeze cycle that makes it treacherous to walk anywhere. The puddles, brown grit and gravel covering everything. It’s just ugly and gross.
And a mild Calgary winter is just more of the same. Which is why I prefer lots of snow and sustained -5 to -15 weather in the winter. It’s just more pleasant than an endless thaw-freeze cycle.
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You need to move to Edmonton. They don't get chinooks so their snow stays until April...
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02-05-2025, 06:31 PM
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#6676
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: SW Calgary
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I've actually found this week quite nice. No wind so being outside has been fine
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02-05-2025, 07:06 PM
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I've actually found this week quite nice. No wind so being outside has been fine
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Yeah I've been in heaven. I have fleece lined jeans from Mark's that are so comfy. Toss on my parka and a toque and I could walk around all night.
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02-05-2025, 07:13 PM
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Just got back from Nunavut , phew… this cold snap is nothing!
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02-05-2025, 07:24 PM
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#6679
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: SW Calgary
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Originally Posted by Sliver
Yeah I've been in heaven. I have fleece lined jeans from Mark's that are so comfy. Toss on my parka and a toque and I could walk around all night.
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Oh damn, they still sell those? I had some 10 years ago and loved them; I should get more
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02-05-2025, 09:14 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by GGG
The Covid year was the worst. I think we had precipitation, most of it snow for the first 15 days of April. That’s the only year I turned into a weather whiner.
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Yes, the one good thing about working from home was not having to go to work in the miserable weather every day.
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