CALGARY -- Tip: Check right at the bottom for some lovely lunar!
It’s challenging to call this coming five-day forecast fall-like, save for the changing colours among the foliage. We’re not into record-breaking territory, but we most certainly are above the 15C seasonal normal.
I mentioned smoke for a brief while yesterday, and again, that’s an element, but it will be largely above us and will have little impact on surface conditions. The potential is there for a few hazy moments, punctuating the otherwise bright, sunny day ahead.
This model shows our surface smoke potential (it’s a model, after all!) from 6 p.m. tonight to 6 p.m. tomorrow:
Here’s the five-day forecast:
Today:
- Sunny
- Daytime high: 21C
- Evening: clear, low 5C
Tomorrow:
- Mainly sunny
- Daytime high: 18C
- Evening: some cloud, low 11C
Sunday:
- Partly cloudy, wildly small chance for late-day showers
- Daytime high: 21C
- Evening: clear, low 7C
Monday:
- Sunny
- Daytime high: 22C
- Evening: some cloud, low 11C
Tuesday:
- Mostly sunny
- Daytime high: 23C
- Evening: clear, low 5C
Richard took a stroll through Fish Creek Provincial Park and snapped this lovely fall photo:
And Tony caught the Harvest Moon over Calgary from Strathcona Hill. What a shot!
The Harvest Moon is the closest full moon to the autumnal equinox, which came on Sept. 22nd. But, with the lunar cycle taking 29.5 days, that means we’ll get a Blue Moon this month, which is the second full moon in a Julian calendar month. And it will fall on Halloween!
Why is this rare?
The full lunar cycle by specific day normally takes 19 years but — because the lunar cycle flips through alternate cycles, called Metonic cycles — we had full moons a day removed. So, instead of Halloween full moons in 2001, 1982, and 1963, they fell on Nov. 1st. The last Halloween full moon came in 1944.
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