Tag Archives: Winter

Ice on Whyte Festival

Is on now until the 28th. This year they will have an adult sized ice castle with slide as part of the celebration 100 years ago of the annexation of Strathcona into Edmonton! woo hoo! Anyone want to go on an ice slide? Films will also be showing everyday at 6.30pm on an ice screen. […]

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Winter Weather Update

for Vicki and Mis_n. This past week we had blizzard warnings on Wednesday and Thursday. A low pressure system was to bring in Arctic air and dump 10cm of snow overnight on Wednesday. The temperature did drop to the -20Cs and 15cm fell over the course of the warning. My co-worker, who is from Vancouver […]

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In True Canadian Style

Saturday night was about -20C for Charlene’s bonfire. Adam and I sat with Jana, John, and Charlene for about an hour outside before we wussed out. It wasn’t too cold for it but the bonfire just never got going. A small little campfire just doesn’t cut it when it’s -20!! Adam tried to throw on […]

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OK, now it’s a bit much!

It feels like WHAT?!?!?! Yes, -39C!! um, weather, please be nicer tomorrow! Thanks.

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Good Weekend

Woke up this morning Saturday morning to a gorgeous view of a blanket of white snow covering the dry pond in the backyard. The temperature was still close to zero so walking around outside was very appealing to me. I don’t know if it’s because I haven’t seen snow in 2 years but there’s something […]

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