Post updates or questions on weather and road conditions in Calgary, or around your world. Hail, snow, flooding or whatever else is affecting your life.
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Post updates or questions on weather and road conditions in Calgary, or around your world. Hail, snow, flooding or whatever else is affecting your life.
Couldn’t have waited for the weather to actually suck lol? Or you listed wanted to be OP.
Imminent climate catastrophe / emergency would be better whether local or wherever.
Well, since this isn't the extreme thread...
Weather is pretty mild at my house. -2, but with a but of moisture in the air, so probably feels like -5. Snow is covering my sidewalks, except where I went too far with the shovel and exposed the grass. A few clouds. No hail in sight, nor am I expecting a hurricane, typhoon, or tornado.
Never the less, Im going to order some chinese, stay inside, and wait out the weather until tomorrow morning.
^Smart man
I need a better plan for the 24th next year. Our regular place is so busy it's basically unuseable, and the alternate we picked this year was brutal.
Yea the wait times were 2-3 hours at my place if you didn’t pre order lol
Well extraslow for our special connection since you’re always lending me a hand, I’ll lend you one too on the 24th :love: ;)
My commute this AM was not the greatest, back end kept kicking out on Stoney and there was a hill I had a bitch of a time getting up, yes I have winters on
https://www.google.org/publicalerts/...ource=wweather
Glad I can work from home.
Snow Squall warning.. lulz
Someone in the middle of Stoney going 50kmh with their hazards on this morning while everyone else going 80, 90, 110 kmh lol.. fun.
The roads weren't great this morning. Took me 17 mins to get to work instead of 16. :thumbsdow
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The ensuite skylight was loud as hell this morning, sounded like hail. Roads medium. What even IS a squall? That's a word I don't think I'd ever use myself.
Yep my commute time was fine today even though I left about 30 minutes later. Also the parkade was empty so as you mention the roads were dead.
Drive in was weird. Did it snow or something over night?
Drove my Z downtown this morning at 8am from Airdrie with my brand new Maxxis Artictrekker tires and still can't decide if the roads weren't as bad as they looked or these cheap Taiwanese tires are really that damn good. Drove behind a Mustang for a good portion of it and he seemed fine full too... only a little bit of slippage felt in Airdrie and on side streets but that's only if I tried, (applying more throttle than necessary in 2nd and 3rd)...
Winter is coming!
GoT spoilers.
Its slippery out there...
It comes!
Still amazes me that a fully funded by British empire expedition, best equipment manpower and resources and planning - a little over a hundred years ago. Could still manage to freeze to death with a couple weeks of -40 degree weather. One of my fave YouTube clips.
With the upcoming week of cold weather, it's time for my most controversial annual statement!
Battery chargers are more important than block heaters!
Interesting website to view temp, wind, cloud cover and other weather variables.
https://www.ventusky.com/
Welp got everything ready to see how well my beater will start if we hit the forecasted -32 temps
Just leave my truck running 24/7 for a week. Am I doing this right?
This really explains the dirty looks I was getting from people in my Parkade...
Jokes aside, the fun police at GM have shut this down on the new gen trucks. I think they shut off automatically after an hour if not moved. Guys up north with their 2020 DMax’s are going to be pissed...
Anyone with an electric car chime in on what sort of procedure to keep the battery warm? I'm assuming that a standard outlet would be just fine just like an ICE block heater, but is there some sort of special settings to leave in standby mode?
On assumption that -5 Celsius is probably what it wants to be kept at.
Watch out for the all season warriors out there. They’ve been driving for 30 years in these conditions and have “no problems” going 50 on Crowchild. That’s safe! :rofl:
Deerfoot was slick in a couple spots. #allseasons.
Average speed to the airport was still about 100 at 6 am
morning commute was slowed down because I can't get my damn garage door to close in this weather!
Have to park on the driveway, override the close button to close the garage and then exit through the house. Ever since this cold snap started it's been like this.
1st and 2nd gear overworked this morning
They didn't start clearing the bike paths until 8am.
Its a little surprising no environment Canada warnings. The very light wind doesn't overcome the cold. I guess we are all used to it by now.
Pretty much the entire province has a advisory: https://weather.gc.ca/warnings/index_e.html?prov=ab
Calgary falls JUST outside of it.
https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/ab-52_metric_e.html
Odd. I usually direct link to Calgary, and its showing no alerts.
I work for a class 8 semi truck dealership and all 2020 Cummin's engines are locked to a 5 minute idle shutdown. The only way we can get around it, order the truck with a PTO switch and body builder connector (Around $1500 bucks) then the customer has to enable the PTO and turn up his fast idle. I would assume the new Rams with the Cummins diesel will be following shortly.
Pretty slick on crowchild in the nw. If we can all calm the fuck down and coast instead of panic brake, that will be great!
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca...nue-to-plummet
Stay warm peeps.
Crowchild NW was definitely slick on the drive home. Counted 14 crashed cars at 7pm. You can easily tell who’s on all seasons tonight, can’t keep straight going 70.
I remember cold winters as a kid and usually having snow on Halloween unlike recent years however I sure as hell don’t remember winters that always had a stretch of -50 windchills like we’ve experienced the last few years
Fuck I hate cold
Get off my 1’ of snow covered lawn
Welp thermometer shows below -30 so working from home till it warms up.
Jan. Always had a week of this... I probably remember better than most do since I use to work at a full service gas station in high school, always amazed me how many more people we got when it was super cold! ...would go the whole shift feeling like I was standing on blocks of ice as boots would eventually get so cold they wouldn’t warm up again in between fills
As someone who worked outside for the past 2 decades, I can also confirm this is 100% normal. Usually there's a week like this in February too.
Roads are a bit slick this morning in places. That light dusting overnight, plus even the best winter tires are hard in these temps.
What's normal is every year people complain that they are abnormal.
Was cold enough to set off my TPMS this morning lol
Just saw -40 briefly by Blackfalds.
This cold is killer on my tire pressures. Must have a slow bead leak in them.
Every night i park in the garage and have to fill at least two that have dropped to the sub-30 psi range in 12 hours of being outside.