16 Replies to “Y2Kyoto: Planetary Fever Warning”

  1. Oh my Lord!
    It’s the end of the world…as we know it.
    It’s the end of the world as we know it.
    It’s the end of the world as we know it.

    And I feel fine…

  2. BC Roads has also issued warnings for Kootenay Pass (the Salmo-Creston highway for old-timers) as possible wet snow. It was the highest pass in Canada until the Highwood Pass in Alberta surpassed it. Anyway, road conditions from the webcam show wet but could change.
    Do wonder how we ever lived until the bureaucrats arrived to manage our lives. Grew up in a mountain town and – trust me – EVERYONE had snow tires (or whatever was available back then). Now, the road up to said town regularly flaunts a sign to the effect that snow tires are REQUIRED from that point on from whenever to whenever. The locals all know this, and I doubt many out-of-towners are unaware that they are heading into snow country and should be properly equipped.

    1. I noticed fresh snow on the peaks on my way back from BC yesterday and I was told it was cold in Victoria on the weekend. Add moisture and you get snow at high elevations. Hopefully this puts an end to some of the forest fires.
      I can remember when they were called forest fires and wildfire was a horse in a song.

      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f8FgbfrOFJ8

    2. I bought those Nokia tires that are rated snow tires (mountain snowflake symbol) but can be used year round exactly for traveling in mountains. Summer in the valley, winter in the pass. In August.

  5. Growing up and schooled in Calgary, Alberta, there was a snow dump in every month of the year, over time. It was tempered by pleasant chinooks, the most extreme I recall in about 1971 in grad school, taking us from minus 40F to plus 40, in a matter of hours. I remember one summer 1969, when I went to the university in shorts and a t. Had to tip-toe in bare feet to the car through wet snow in July.

    Summer heavy wet snow in high mountain passes and roads never changed, even as Calgary warmed somewhat in the 1990s.

    As Kenzie says, La Niña years are great for skiers, but perhaps not so great for driving in the mid-coast mountain regions of North America.

    1. …there was a snow dump in every month of the year…

      This. From even further south, just off the 49th. Been snowed on every summer month backpacking/tenting in Waterton and the Crowsnest Pass, too.

    2. The local lore is that snow has been recorded in Calgary in every week of the calendar year, and all but a couple of dozen days of the year. I’ve never verified it, too good to check and entirely plausible.

  7. Hope some of that water finds it way to Saskatchewan. And maybe finishes filling Diefenbaker Lake. So they can open up the dam a bit. Low water in Saskatoon for 3 seasons in a row now, be nice to get flows up for my boat.

  10. Hi Deplorable, I remember -40 in Calgary 1971. I had a brand new car and didn’t think it would start. Got up early to catch a bus to work but the car started. Went to work. Got out at 4:30 and there was a chinook everything was melting. Guess it could be -40 C or F and then 40F.

    1. I recall one winter in the early 90’s, there was a cold spell and the forecast was for a chinook in the morning. So when I got up I called the weather line to see what to dress for. It was, at the same time, officially -32 at the airport and +2 at Canada Olympic Park. I live downtown, I had to flip a coin.

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