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An extreme cold weather warning is in place for every area in Alberta for the next week. Temps between minus 40 to minus 50. To put that into perspective, that’s an area approx 2.5 times the size of the UK. I should add the cold warnings extend into British Columbia and Saskatchewan

Merry Christmas all. Currently snowing nicely and minus 25 on a cold early Christmas morning in Canmore. Lots of snow around. Sadly warm and wet in England lol. Hope everyone has a great Christmas day.

Certainly a cold and snowy Christmas this year in Canmore... currently minus 20.

Just looking back over my records and the one time I have recorded a flash freeze was when I was in Boston Pizza in Canmore. It went from around 0oC to -15oC by the time I’d finished eating (within the hour). Accompanied by a lot of snow associated with the cold front. Here’s a pic from that night. Clear when I went in. Gotta love Canadian weather events you’d never really get in the UK. Never gets boring.

Blimey that’s certainly a flash freeze. I’ve seen the reverse during a chinook - that’s impressive

Another snowy day in Canmore and looking at the forecast snow tomorrow and Christmas Day as it turns colder. Very much a white Christmas this year.

Exactly as the long range called it last month. Quite impressed. Certainly going to be a cold spell coming up.

Is that near the Odean cineplex? Certainly going to be a chilly Christmas Day. Enjoy!

Visiting family in the SE this Christmas. Coming back from pub tonight and thick frost here on cars and grass in Wigmore, North Kent. Sounds weird but not used to frost in the Canadian Rockies. The humidity is too low / not enough moisture around to create frost. Snow and ice yes but frost, not so much. Off to Scotland just after Christmas....hoping for some snow

Sod the models, I’ve got a more accurate way of working out if it’ll be a white Christmas. I’ve had four white christmases whenever I’ve visited family in Scotland and the year has been an odd number. I’m coming up this year...just saying

Not as big a difference as you’d expect, when it’s already that cold and especially when it’s cloudy. Usually about 5oC difference

But the Met Office called this 3/4 days ago and for around the 23rd . I was asking then what was it in here that people saw and were willing to go against them? Was it genuine probability of more than 50% that cold was predicted in various models/charts etc. Or more wishful thinking?

Wind chill def making it feel colder. We used to get great drifts in our old place. Wind used to come in off the golf course.... Next week looks good. Christmas Day good chance of snow and cold around minus 20 Shame I’ll be in rainy Uk lol

Yup don’t envy you. That’s a cold one. Think Canmore got to a balmy -6oC that Christmas day though New Year’s Eve was close to -20oC I’m in Scotland between Christmas/New Year period (via Kent for Christmas) - I’m sure it’ll be mild and wet

The cold is back after the snow at the weekend. Lows in the minus teens/20’s for the foreseeable and highs in the minus double digits. Forecasts next week for Christmas Eve/Day and beyond show a possible further cooling with daytime highs close to or in the minus 20’s. That’ll make it one of the coldest Christmas days I can remember in 16 years. Coincidentally this day 13 years ago I experienced my coldest air temp of -42oC, with the daytime high only getting to -36oC. That’s not including the wind chill into the minus 50’s. That wasn’t fun. Here’s an article forecasting the cold to continue for southern Alberta to the new year. Cold snap for southern Alberta to likely last for the rest of December - My Lethbridge Now WWW.MYLETHBRIDGENOW.COM LETHBRIDGE, AB – Keep those toques and parkas handy. It’s going to get cold and more than likely stay that way right through Christmas. Arctic air is forecast to flood across...

Thanks for the reply. What surprised me though is that in the past if it’s 50/50 they’ve split out the two options and advised either might happen. Today they seemed more bullish that although percentage wise it was just over 50%, the trend seemed more likely than not. Guess we’ll see it play out over the next few days.

Hopefully this is deemed MOD worthy for discussion. Very much a novice question. Feel free to move if wrong thread. Having just seen the 10 day Meto forecast and coming on here I’m scratching my head at the difference in thoughts. Are there different models that they view compared to here on NW? They seemed quite confident the trend for low pressure/non cold conditions over the Uk from around Dec 23 but here it seems a different analysis. Would be interested to hear the rationale as to the opposing view , other than because a 10 day chart shows differently.

I’ll be in Killearn, Glasgow between Christmas and New Year. My prediction is: Min temp: -3oC Max temp: 4oC Morning weather: starting clear and frosty with rain and sleet moving in. Afternoon weather: rain/sleet turning over to snow with 5-10cm by the time the Turkey and whiskey are having me reach for the Rennie Nollaig Chridheil

Yes it eased during early hours. Good total around 10-15cm’s around town depending on elevation. Kananaskis hit 30cm again.

Complete whiteout at the moment. Very impressive - didn’t expect this. Webcam shows it off best at the mo.

Until the Brussels sprouts...

The snow has just moved in. A weather warning has popped up too. Up to 25cm forecast in the region, though the highest amounts I think will be west of Canmore towards the BC border. I should have booked to stay at Storm Mountain Lodge. I think they’ll be in the sweet spot....

Can’t stand ice - had a few close calls due to ice storms. I feel your pain

Or live next door to a retired neighbour who insists he does it for you (for a few beers). Gotta love Alberta in the winter. So bright. I notice how gloomy the UK is in the winter in comparison. One of my fav spots in Canmore is a window seat at Craigs Waystation - great breakfast, coffee and view of those big skies over the mountains

Whiteout conditions at the moment. Snow accumulating quickly. If it carries on like this things could get interesting