Calgary faces midweek flurries

CALGARY -

I reckon we open with the best news – Calgary clocked its second-warmest day of November 2022 yesterday. We got to 3.5 C.

By this time, your seasonally-average temperature is 4 C. We start November with a seasonal normal of 7 C, so let's just use a basic averaging formula and imagine the seasonal average for the first half of November is 5.5 C. At this time, our actual average high temperature is -4.3 C.

We would have some serious work to do if we planned to break even. Granted… we won't.

Today's forecast: we're qualifiable as having no significant weather to discuss (not a bad thing); it'll be sunny, and on the heels of a rather warm day, but we’re also dealing with some NNW gusts at over 40 kilometres per hour. I'm optimistic that we come close to matching our high from Sunday.

Tuesday, we'll repeat; more wind from the NNW, another shot at three to four degrees. If we hit four, it would mark our first day of November that gets above-seasonal.

Then, the snow. Wednesday's snowfall outlook bares fewer teeth than it did last week, but a couple of mid-afternoon centimetres of snow should be expected. Wind will be firmly from the north still, contributing to a cooler day Thursday.

We recover Friday and, to sandwich the article with optimism, Calgary may see its first day with an above-seasonal high temperature Saturday, if Tuesday isn't up to the task.

YOUR FIVE-DAY CALGARY FORECAST:

Monday

• Evening: some cloud, low -5 C

Tuesday

• Partly cloudy
• Daytime high: 4 C
• Evening: snow, low -4 C

Wednesday

• Mainly cloudy, chance of flurries
• Daytime high: -1 C
• Evening: some cloud, low -12 C

Thursday

• Mainly sunny
• Daytime high: -7 C
• Evening: mainly clear, low -12 C

Friday

• Sunny
• Daytime high: 1 C
• Evening: clear, low -3 C

Saturday

• Sunny
• Daytime high: 8 C
• Evening: clear, low -2 C

Dwight takes the pic of the day for us so far, with this nifty shot along the Elbow River. Is that grass I see?

Viewer Dwight captured this photo along the Elbow River in southern Alberta.

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