# It Was 20° C\* on Friday, and Snowing Today **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 14, 2005, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-20-c-on-friday-and-snowing-today/294498 "2005-03-14T18:55:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-20-c-on-friday-and-snowing-today/294498/1 "2005-03-14T18:55:13Z")
Welcome to Calgary. Actually, it snowed yesterday too, and then melted in the day. It’s only mid-March, so we can probably expect one or two good blasts of winter yet before spring sets in for good. My poor tulips and daffodils are under snow. Stupid buggers. Coming up before May. \*(That’s 68° F for the metric impaired, and extremely nice for this time of year here.) ---
**Author:** ![Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gut)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-20-c-on-friday-and-snowing-today/294498/2 "2005-03-14T19:29:11Z")
A very nice flurry of snowy activity going on right now indeed. It’s going to be messy driving for a few days. Load up on the smurf juice! [sub]Stupid snow grumble grumble grumble[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![the\_Lady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@the\_Lady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Lady)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-20-c-on-friday-and-snowing-today/294498/3 "2005-03-14T19:34:45Z")
I’ve been encouraging mine to stay hidden. “Keep sleeping little tulips! It’s not spring yet!” ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-20-c-on-friday-and-snowing-today/294498/4 "2005-03-14T20:42:00Z")
It was 85 here in the South yesterday so I’m sunburned and sore as hell from putting in an antique brick walkway and spreading loads of good dirt, that after last week’s marathon pruning, bed cleaning and dethatching workfest. Tell ya what, I’ll send a warm front up your way if you’ll send another mid-summer cool spell down again like last year’s. Wherever it originated from, we considered it heaven sent. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-20-c-on-friday-and-snowing-today/294498/5 "2005-03-14T20:48:24Z")
DONE! We don’t think nearly as much of summer cool spells - we get enough of that in winter, thank yew very much. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-20-c-on-friday-and-snowing-today/294498/6 "2005-03-14T20:54:39Z")
I mowed my lawn yesterday wearing T-shirt and shorts. I got up this morning and there were two inches of white fluffly stuff on top of it. So confusing. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-20-c-on-friday-and-snowing-today/294498/7 "2005-03-15T02:20:26Z")
This was a confusing day all day long - I look outside, and the sun is shining. I look again half an hour later, it’s a full-on blizzard. I look back another half hour later, the sun is shining _and_ it’s snowing. Weird. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-20-c-on-friday-and-snowing-today/294498/8 "2005-03-15T13:16:38Z")
When I woke up last Tuesday it was 55 degrees. When I left work, there was a snowstorm. How the hell does that happen? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-20-c-on-friday-and-snowing-today/294498/9 "2005-03-15T13:41:20Z")
-16 fahrenheit (-27C) this morning in the central Colorado Rockies. I plowed yesterday. Got about a foot of snow in the last 3 days. With more on the way. Summer always comes late. I expect snow through mid May. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-20-c-on-friday-and-snowing-today/294498/10 "2005-03-15T14:02:06Z")
Jeez **enipla** , are you at elevation? My in-laws live in the CO plains and they’re often warmer than we are. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-20-c-on-friday-and-snowing-today/294498/11 "2005-03-15T14:15:51Z")
> [@](#): > > Jeez enipla, are you at elevation? Yeah, 11,200 feet. The worst (or at least snowiest) of winter often comes in the ‘springtime’. Although that -16f was pretty unusual. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-20-c-on-friday-and-snowing-today/294498/12 "2005-03-15T15:36:43Z")
Wow, you’ve got us beat. Calgary’s around 3500 ft, which is pretty high for a large city. You’re almost halfway up Everest. You must have a _really_ short growing season. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-20-c-on-friday-and-snowing-today/294498/13 "2005-03-15T15:44:44Z")
> [@](#): > > You must have a _really_ short growing season. August 3rd. Noon till 3 pm. Really, the summers are beautiful, just quite short. And never what you could call hot. ---
**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-20-c-on-friday-and-snowing-today/294498/14 "2005-03-16T00:21:03Z")
I remember 3 years ago we had some 90F temperatures in April. It also snowed 3 times that April, both before and after the hot temperatures. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-20-c-on-friday-and-snowing-today/294498/15 "2005-03-16T01:31:04Z")
The only time I have been stuck at home, called in to work because of snow was the day of the Oklahoma City bombing. Got about 2-3 feet that night. What was that, April 19th, 1995. I wasn’t married then, but my girlfriend (now Wife) was staying at my house and her car was at the bottom of the drive. She didn’t have a 4x4 at the time. I had a CJ7 with tall studded mud and snows on it. I also chained it up, if I recall. I eventually got out, but I had to dig out my Wife’s car first so it would not get in the way of the County plow, that we hoped would come that day. Well, big grader with a blade on front and shoulder blade on the side. They don’t send plow trucks up this road. This is before I had a plow on my truck. But even then. Spring snows are so wet that it plays hell on a pick-up plow. I prefer not to plow the County roads, just my drive. The snows we get at my house are rarely more than 2 feet deep. Typically, we get a foot here and there. With 2" and 6" storms in-between. But it takes forever to melt. 4x4’s with snow tires and decent ground clearance are the only way to go. That, and a plow truck. The County threatened to remove plow service from these tertiary roads a few years ago. But, because of emergency service needs, and frankly, it’s a County road not mine, they reinstated it. I was looking at having to buy a 4x4 loader back-hoe, perhaps a Case 580, or a Uni-Mog with a plow, if they had decided to stop maintaining the road. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-20-c-on-friday-and-snowing-today/294498/16 "2005-03-16T02:07:47Z")
Is that unusual for Calgary? Every 3 or 4 years it gets up to the 70s to even 90s (F) here before inevitiably snowing 2 or 3 days later. Occasionally the snow is a blizard. New Hampshire winters are grand. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-20-c-on-friday-and-snowing-today/294498/17 "2005-03-16T17:31:17Z")
No, not really unusual for Calgary. Actually, there is no weather pattern that’s unusual for Calgary. Being so close to the Rockies keeps our weather patterns extremely…interesting. This morning we woke up to ice fog, and now we’re having a lovely, lazy snowfall. And I could start this thread in any month of the year, too, including summer. Our summers are not exactly beautiful - they’re a real mish-mash of hot, cold, snowy, rainy, haily, you name it, but the fall season here seems to be the best - long, warm, mostly temperate and even. If you like warm summer nights, though, don’t move here. You must experience the same thing, **enipla** - as soon as the sun goes down, the temperature plummets. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-20-c-on-friday-and-snowing-today/294498/18 "2005-03-16T17:45:09Z")
Spent four months in Calgary (Palliser) one year. It was -35 arriving but 90 leaving. Still, with Teatros around the corner and Banff Springs Hotel within reach, who cared to complain? Wonderful, delightful city/region you got there. **Enipla** gets my vote for the hardest working man on the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-20-c-on-friday-and-snowing-today/294498/19 "2005-03-16T18:50:25Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > **enipla** - as soon as the sun goes down, the temperature plummets. Yep, the thin air and lack of humidity can’t hold the heat. The good news is that I don’t ever have to worry about air-conditioning. > [@](#): > > Enipla gets my vote for the hardest working man on the SDMB. Shucks… you get used to it. I don’t have to mow grass in the summer so it’s a trade off. I do kind of wonder how I’m going to handle it as I get older. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-20-c-on-friday-and-snowing-today/294498/20 "2005-03-17T01:30:09Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Yep, the thin air and lack of humidity can’t hold the heat. The good news is that I don’t ever have to worry about air-conditioning.\ Very few houses in Calgary have air conditioning. Some cars have it (mostly the new ones, anyway), but you only need it a week or two of the year. We don’t have many pest problems, either, and I’ll take cool summer evenings over rats, mice, huge insects, etc. any day of the year.