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I remember back when I took horticulture in high school, we were taught the average number of frost free days for Calgary was 105. It...

We're now at 134 days above biological zero (4⁰). Crazy that our previous record was 110.

I picked the last of the garden today. Still have lots of good sized apples that are slowly getting redder. If they can make it through...

I mean we've already matched the record, so thats fine.

Ending the month of September with an average high of 24⁰ and an average low of 9⁰ is crazyyy.

Picked some more apples today. I’ve been getting full sized apples since the end of August and with no frost in forecast for 14 days...

Definitely gonna smash this record. A bunch of others will fall this season as well.

Here's another similar threshold that illustrates the warming local climate, particularly at nights in the summer - most days over 10...

Another interesting factoid from https://www.reddit.com/r/CalgaryWxRecords/ . Longest streak of above 4 degrees in history, pushing...

Looks like we are coming close to having water restrictions now, doubt it will happen as garden season is ending and water use should...

Just yesterday my wife and I were talking about how we used to be paranoid of frost warnings and my vegetable garden at this time of...

It's been one of the better summers in recent memory for plants, particularly trees. All the stats don't easily reflect it, but the...

I flew in yesterday and from the plane was shocked how green Calgary and area is. Usually by now everything's a mix of light green...

Yesterday also may have bumped it to 4th or even 3rd, with another 25.3 mm of rain (part of the 167.5 mm). The data about 5th place...

167.5 mm of rain this month, with two days worth of rain data missing, so likely higher. Average rainfall for July is 65.7 mm, but we...