(Update: Joke all you want down there in the comments… I just heard a weather man on NBC affiliate K5 from Seattle utter the words “First Nations summer”….)
(Update: Joke all you want down there in the comments… I just heard a weather man on NBC affiliate K5 from Seattle utter the words “First Nations summer”….)
Best September EVER. And the forecast for this area (red deer) is great all next week too.
Finally, after about 11 months of below normal temperatures. Note Dr. Fruitfly’s area is quite cool.
Excellent weather page for Calgarians
http://wx.ca
It’s been an awesome late summer – cycling with sandals to and from work every day – typically only July footwear!
Temps in the 30’s for most of September in our new southern Alberta home.
Frequent reader,seldom comment,however…Does no one else remember(and I may be dating myself here :{)>)when we used to get “Indian Summers” as a regular part of our weather cycles?(Is that PC anymore or should that be “Indigenous to Canada Native Summers”?)Seems to me all weather is cyclical no matter what the length of said cycles.Regardless,sign me “Enjoying my “Indian Summer” in Ab.
we used to get Indian summers . but now they are called ‘Warming Periods courtesy of your First Nations” and then a handshake first nations style – palm up……
Yes. Finally summer.
2009 will go down as the summer from hell here in Eastern Ontario with non-stop rain and cool weather. Crops have suffered and are behind in maturity. Haying was near impossible. Gardens were ruined with blight, scab and rot.
I’ll be glad to put this year behind us.
ok ok ok… “Hindi Indian summer” it is…. P/C be damned! I’ll take it regardless of title. really really, lovin’ this weather out west. Joe Molnar have any crop this year out east there? ah.. remember “tomatoes”?
as for Dr. Suzuki, all broken clocks are correct twice a day…
From Billings MT. So that’s why it was so hot at our picnic today. We are in the bullseye. Our Indian summer has arrived a month early.
+ 35 C seems a bit extreme for Sept 28 , broke record in Medicine Hat by 2.8 degrees . Damn beeeyooootiful day tho .
september???? damn.I thought I had slept through July and missed summer. great wx for next 6 days here in Edmonchuk.Call it whatever you want,I just hope we get more of it until next june.C’mon GW!!!(or do i have sue fruitfly for fraud??)
Yeah, its not bad here. Actually stopped raining long enough I got to cut the weeds in the ditch.
Perfect day today, the lads from the Warplane Heritage were out in numbers. Overflight by several Harvards, and the Fleet Fort. One of a kind that one.
Had the Westland Lysander up yesterday, I’ve got pictures at my place.
First Nations Summer:
Hey, I started using that one about 10 years ago. How do I get royalties?
Well we shall see,as an eastern Ontario gal ,I concur this has been a non summer and since the pool died this past winter from ice/snow damage I have mixed feelings. However even the deer are ticked at the at the crapy garden so a few extra days to weed the mess are welcomed, As a Canadian I will grab and worship any day above freezing and yet I have had to spark the wood stove on three nights as the air dips from 20 to 4 in the dark of night. Please drive your SUV I don’t want a global cooling phase . PLEASE!
Howse about First Nation giver?
Every slough in our area is dry now. Every. Single. One. It could rain for the next three months and it wouldn’t be enough at this point.
Phantom, you must be near Hamilton airport. It is a great museum there. My brother who lives near there took me to see it a few years ago. Is that statue of Copps still there?
I scraped frost off my windshield (Southern Ontario) this morning.
ice on the dam windshield this morning when I went out
ship some of the indiun summer this way
Anyone having bear troubles? I’ve heard the berry crop was poor everywhere.
There’s a wonderful treat, here in SE Alberta, called cactus berries. They’re the seed pod of the ball cactus, and they taste sort of like kiwi fruit. They usually ripen in late August, but this year they’re almost a month late. I ate about 20 of them yesterday. Not as plentiful as blueberries are up north, but I don’t have to compete with bears, either.
Too little too late for my cucumbers, they needed the heat a month ago. Still, I will take every nice day from now until the first snow.
but I don’t have to compete with bears, either.
However rattlesnakes …..
Actually, I have noticed that it seems that each month has a ‘typical’ weather pattern. However each month’s weather pattern may be the month before or the month after. For example in Edmonton we are enjoying August weather in September. This likewise is following the year long pattern of the weather running a month late. Our very late spring morphed into a very late summer. Not that I’m complaining mind you.
It’s sort of like when the local grocery changed their aisle sign from “Mexican Foods” to “Hispanic Foods”…what, is “Mexican” a pejorative term now?
Besides, most of the foods in that section ARE distinctively Mexican…go to anywhere else in Latin America, like say, South America and ask for a tortilla and they will bring you what looks like an omelette.
hate the heat! been looking at skis.
I wonder when they’ll change the “Chinese Food” section at the grocery store or in the phone book. Will it be “Asian (not East Indian)”? “Asian and Southeast Asian”?
aaaargh.
Basically they are to lazy to blocade summer anymore . and it is working out great. Best September I have seen all my 52 years. Casinos pay better than blocades.
Best summer in many, many years right here on Vancouver Island. Not much of a recession either. Yes it’s as perfect as Canada gets. Just rubbing it in a little. Sell that million dollar dump in Toronto or Calgary and have your retirement cheques forwarded out here. It’s easy and your children will be glad to be rid of you so they can raise their kids they they
Sorry … I just got home and I had a few scorches after dinner.
Best summer in many, many years right here on Vancouver Island. Not much of a recession either. Yes it’s as perfect as Canada gets. Just rubbing it in a little. Sell that million dollar dump in Toronto or Calgary and have your retirement cheques forwarded out here. It’s easy and your children will be glad to be rid of you so they can raise their kids the waythey want to.
Wonderfull summer here in N.E. BC, once we got into July. God bless Dr. Fruitfly and Al Gore. Keep buying those Hummers until someone can show a downside to global warming. Enjoy that carbon tax, we can pollute all we want……..guilt free.
Funny that they would call it “first nations summer”, since “Indian” in this context, the same as in the old phrase “Indian giver”, means “false”. You would think they would want to keep the aboriginals out of a term that means “false”, but irony is lost on these guys. BTW, when do we get some?
The other thing is that, at least in the US, most Indians prefer the term Indian, for example
http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/
In fact, many Indians will tell you that being “Indian” is not a matter of race, it is a way of thinking and living.
In my neighborhood, there’s a guy with a bumper-sticker that reads, “I was Indian before being an Indian was cool.”
It annoys me and makes me laugh at the same time.
Warm fall bad for hunting. We need a few frosts to get the rut started.
Aboriginal person summer, please. We must be inclusive of all.
Jim- I think the rut is triggered by more than just temperature. I watched a couple of antelope fighting, yesterday. They really lose their marbles during the rut.
Ruffed grouse males do their mating ritual of “drumming” spring, and fall. I think the length of daylight time confuses them, but maybe temperature has something to do with it.
Joe- I’ve dealt with bears, and I’ve dealt with rattlesnakes. Believe me, bears are much scarier.
I took a bunch of kids camping for two weeks on the shore of an Alberta lake. I was awakened the next morning by a panicked kid telling me there was a bear outside my tent. I crawled out of my tent and sure enough there was a black bear warming himself in the early morning sun. I walked toward him and told him, “OK George,its time to get up.” To every one’s amazement George the bear got up and ambled off into the forest. This little ritual went on almost as long as we stayed there. I have never found bears that scary. Although I do respect the fact that they are much stronger and much better equipped to kill than I am.
I think we set three new temperature records here in Speedy Creek this week. Bout damn time that Global Warming thing showed up.
While Indian Summers are a normal part of the weather cycle and were commonplace in my youth you do realize that any temperature considered warmer then say the last 10 years will be hyped to high heaven by the AGW Alarmists.
You see weather is not Climate unless the weather is warmer, when it is colder that is weather so be sure to reference the weather change we experienced for most of the year, and the Intense Climate Change now in the North Central US and Canadian Prairies.
Goreacle Report: It’s weather.
No mention of U-Know-What.
But, the “yo-yo” is “Wacky weather”.
WTF is wacky about the weather?
Good old lucky: “Luckily we aren’t going to be looking at too much cold air.
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“Wacky weather set to continue into October
Locals will be alternating from shorts and T-shirts to fall jackets and scarves as temperatures yo-yo between highs of 29 C and lows near freezing from now until the beginning of October.
After the city saw its record high of 32.2 C this past Wednesday, a front of cold air from the Northwest Territories’ MacKenzie Valley area travelled through the province today bringing highs of 16 C and lows of 2 C.
Wind gusts reached up to 50 km/h with the breezy air bringing hints of frost to the outskirts of the city.
“Luckily we aren’t going to be looking at too much cold air. A really large, warm ridge of high pressure from the Washington-Oregon area will push inland once again swinging the pendulum into 29 C by Wednesday,” said Lisa Coldwells, meteorologist with Environment Canada.
Coldwells said it’s not unusual to see extreme temperature fluctuations in September as the city — and the rest of the continent — transitions from summer to fall.
“We seem to swing from one air mass to another,” Coldwells said.”
http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/edmonton/2009/09/20/11017696.html
this weather sucks. I bivy’d with -30*C bag and nearly cooked myself to death!