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Weather and Gardening Discussion

Here's another similar threshold that illustrates the warming local climate, particularly at nights in the summer - most days over 10 degree minimum. Despite no real notable really hot heat waves, 2025 still made it to the new record.

All of the top 5 are in the last 5 years, 9 of the top 10 are in the last 12 years.

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Mountain Man said:
We are one place that looks to mostly benefit from climate change, apart from maybe running out of water in the future lol.
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Yeah, a longer growing season is awesome .... but you need water to actually grow stuff (and live). This is the next record I have my eyes on:
Calgary on track to see its driest September in more than 100 years

We haven't gotten more than 0.5mm of rain in day since mid August. It's lucky July was so rainy or we'd have had water restrictions all summer probably!
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Calgary's limiting climatic factor in the future will be less about the harsh frosts and cold winters, it's going to be increasingly about lack of reliable water IMO.
 
I know that the airport has become fully surrounded by development in the past decade. I wonder how much all that concrete, asphalt, rooftops retaining heat factor into these numbers, up until recently that weather station was far from development. Not denying climate change here, just commenting on the urban heat island effect extending further and further out.
 
There would definitely be a heat island effect. Probably a slight effect in the NE being that's the weather station is close to prairie, but there would be an effect. Where I live, close to inner city NW the change has been noticeable, I think even more so than we see in the environment Canada records.
 
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, I’ll still be picking them well into October.

For most years the apples used to be about 2/3rds the size of this. For about the last five years or so the apples have been bigger as the seasons have been longer. Those extra 3-4 weeks of warm weather with no frost makes a difference.
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Ending the month of September with an average high of 24⁰ and an average low of 9⁰ is crazyyy.
 
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