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Calgary hit with snow, Ontario basking in the sun

by ricknight | May 24, 2007 at 09:22 am

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As much of central Canada basks in warm, spring weather, people in and around Calgary have had to haul out their winter boots and snowshovels.

With the official start of summer just weeks away, the Alberta city has been hit with about five centimetres of snow.

It's heavy, wet stuff and is staying on the ground. The wind-chill makes if feel like minus-5 Celsius.

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Victoria Revay

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at 10:08 on May 24th, 2007

ricknight, this is good..and I'm glad I don't live in Calgary....

ricknight

at 11:33 on May 24th, 2007

nice town, but the sudden swings in temperature (chinooks) would drive me nuts.

cyberdex

at 11:36 on May 24th, 2007

This is nothing. We didn't even break out the snow plows, nevermind shut the city down.

ricknight

at 11:52 on May 24th, 2007

Here in toronto we couldn't have another snow storm... the army is in Afganistan... who would shovel us out? [ba-dum-bum. try the veal folks I'm here all week...]

Barry Artiste

at 22:03 on May 26th, 2007

You know that is quite the freak snowstorm. I checked the news media across the country for a response on this from our leading Global Warming experts, Suzuki and others, who for the most part are remaining eerily silent in all this. Must be nice to have a convienient agenda, only when conditions match their own theories. I'm just saying, that's all. Anyone else get an environmental response from so called Global Warming experts, even arm chair experts, anyone?

matte

at 03:33 on May 27th, 2007

Of ccourse global warming doews not all have to be about warming all the time - just like when humans have a 'cold' they also have a higher temperature!

I think its more to do with freakish weather caused by as yet not understood aspects of the weather engines...clobal warminmg. climate change or whatever label people care to put to it.