Look Up!
Are you as weirdly into clouds as I am? Then check out this lecture on basic cloud identification and naming!
We did a little bit of this when I took Geography 100 in Fall 2007, but it wasn’t as detailed and we actually didn’t look at example pictures for whatever reason.
OUTSIIIIIIIIIDE
So our temperature swung up to 45 degrees today (!!!) and I finally, FINALLY got to run outside.
I haven’t gotten to run or walk outside (apart from going to campus and/or the grocery store) THIS ENTIRE MONTH.
IT’S THE TWENTIETH.
I was losing my freaking mind on that treadmill, man.
You Can’t Make This Stuff Up, Man
EVERY
SINGLE
YEAR
My birthday is weather-cursed, dude. WEATHER-CURSED, I TELL YOU!
I get it, to an extent. People born in February can’t expect the best weather on their birthday.
But this is a freaking conspiracy.
Oh God, Here We Go
Edit from later in the day:
OH GOD, HERE WE GO
I guess it will be treadmill time for a while. It’s cold and they’re not going to get all this cleared super fast.
I am not built for the cold
IT’S NOT EVEN THAT COLD OUT YET
AND I WAS RUNNING
How does one get THIS COLD while running 18 miles? Someone tell me.
Thun-Dah
We had a mega storm yesterday and the freaking airport flooded but I can’t take it seriously because TRÈS GROSSE GRÊLE sounds like a badass French metal band.
A frost advisory in mid-June?
LOL OKAY ALBERTA, YOU DO YOU I GUESS
Run, Calgary, Run!
So remember that really horrible day that I ran my 60K for the virtual Calgary Ultra Marathon?
Turns out I could have picked a worse day to do it: the day of the actual marathon.
My day was windy as hell, but was otherwise not too bad.
Today, the day of the actual marathon, was also windy as hell but came with a bonus hour and a half of POURING RAIN.
I don’t mind running in rain. But when the downpour hit, it was around 8:30 in the morning. Based on when the ultra started this morning, I estimated that I’d be about halfway through the race by that time. Which would mean another 18-ish miles of either getting rained on or running in soaking wet clothes/shoes/socks.
So yeah.
I’m okay with my virtual decision now. I was really regretting it for a few weeks there, but at least now I am blister free and not lying on the ground at the finish line in pre-hypothermia mode like I’d be if I ran today.
FUN!
Ugh.
The smoke is back.
Already.
It’s FREAKING MAY.
It also always seems to happen on the hottest day of the week/month/whatev, so we can’t even open the windows.
I hate summer already.
OH CRAP
It’s so cold here that everyone’s burning through power and the grid’s ready to bite it.
We really are Canada’s Texas.
The only things on in our condo right now are my computer and a few lights (we’ve turned the furnace down, but I guess that’s on, too).
Edit: we survived the failure threat! No rolling power outages.
Die another day, Alberta power grid.
NO BUT SERIOUSLY IT’S COLD YO
Oh my god.
OH MY GOD.
So this was the temperature when I headed into campus this morning.
No, I didn’t walk in (though I thought about it, haha). Instead, I took the bus.
Here is the scene from the bus stop in front of our house. Doesn’t the air look frozen?
Anyway. Took the bus in but decided to actually take it down to Brentwood Mall ‘cause I needed groceries. It’s about 0.36 miles from the Fresh Co there to the math building, so I figured walking back to campus after getting groceries wouldn’t be too bad.
Ha.
Have you ever been outside in feels like -53? It’s colder than anything I’d ever experienced, that’s for sure. Like, -40 is cold. But dropping it another 13 degrees? Ouch.
Ouch.
Needless to say, I took the bus home after I was done with work. I was actually surprised at how many students were in my afternoon class given how cold it was.
Edit: there’s ice on the inside of the Kines building doors. Freaking brr.
It’s Cold, Yo
Every year we get like two two-week periods of absolute hellish cold. Usually one of these periods overlaps perfectly with winter break (end of December-ish) and the other happens sometime around he start of Winter semester (mid-January).
We didn’t really have much of a cold snap in December, but HOLY HELL it’s cold right now.
We’re talking “feels like” temps in the -40s.
And it’s just going to get colder of the next few days!
Claudia and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Blood Circulation
So the temperature has tanked here and OH MY GOD I AM SO FREAKING COLD
My hands can’t handle this, yo. My hands can barely handle 40-degree weather, let alone teens or negatives.
I don’t know how I used to go on 15-mile walks in like -15 degrees back in like 2018/2019. I suspect doing so is what’s destroyed my fingers, though. They are SO sensitive to cold now it’s actually kind of scary.
I should probably go to the doctor and see if I actually have Raynaud’s (even though I don’t get the color-changing skin) or if there’s something else going on.
IT’S WINTER, YOU SONS OF BITCHES
TIME FOR SNOW
TIME FOR COLD
TIME FOR ME TO REGRET THE FACT THAT I AM A LIZARD
Gettin’ Mugged
Why the hell does Moscow feel like a swamp right now? This kind of mugginess isn’t normal, is it? I don’t remember it being this muggy in the summers when I lived here, but I may just not be used to it because Calgary is like the driest city ever.
UGH.
UGH
So I had every intention of running a marathon today, but:
1. It got smoky. Like, super smoky. Our scale up here goes from 1 (clean air) to 11+ (you’re going to die if you go outside), and we hit a 9 while I was out running.
2. It’s muggy as all hell. For whatever reason, it’s super humid here today and there’s nothing worse than muggy hell when trying to run.
3. It’s windy as all hell. I’m always down for a little wind while running, but it was obnoxious today.
All these components resulted in a pretty miserable, difficult run that was only 21 miles long.
UGH I hate cutting my distance short, but I also don’t want to get lung damage, so.
I Love the Clouds Here
Look at this cloud exploding over the horizon of the U of C. How freaking cool is that?
YA LIKE SMOKE????
The air quality when I got up to run this morning:
The air quality at the end of my run (about 2.5 hours later):
Yeah, the wildfire smoke blew in QUICKLY. Look at this post-apocalyptic nonsense.
Ugh.
IT’S SUMMER, SUMMER, SUMMER!!!!!
(Well, not technically, but you know what I mean)
Time for another “how am I supposed to care about my present or future when the world is on fire and our generation probably won’t make it to retirement on a survivable planet?”
What’s it going to be this summer, eh?
Ridiculous wildfires?
Crop-destroying, river-draining droughts?
Crippling, month-long heatwaves?
ALL OF THE ABOVE????? ?? ???
???
Edit: Jesus Christ, Phoenix.
Breaking Spring
So Calgary’s XTREME WINTER TEMPERATURES are really good at lining up for when I am on any kind of break – winter break, spring break, whatever.
Don’t believe me?
Take a look at this graph. Can you tell which week is our spring break?
Yup, you got it!
This happens EVERY YEAR. What in the HELL.
Band o’ Cloud
Bro, check out this snazzy band of cloud:
I LOVE the clouds up here. We usually don’t get super interesting ones until the summer (apart from the Chinook arches), but this one is pretty unique.
Brrthday Brr
So it’s been pretty well established over the years that it’s always very cold on my birthday up here in Calgary.
I mean, of course it is, my birthday’s in the winter. But I mean in comparison to the days surrounding my birthday, the birthday day itself is always quite a bit colder than the other days.
And it looks like that’s going to be the case this year, too:
That’s hilarious. There’s a DELIBERATE TEMPERATURE DIVE approaching February 2nd, then it goes back up again.
H I L A R I O U S
WELL THAT FORECAST WAS WRONG
Me: Hey forecast, whatcha got for me?
Forecast: Sunny and calm until 11 AM! :D
Me: Cool! Time to go running.
Forecast: lolololo fuk u have rain
Me: Wait hang on I’ve still got five miles until I get h-
Forecast: FUK U HAVE RAIN
Forecast: HAVE ALL THE RAIN
Forecast: DROWN, LOSER
(It rained a lot on my return run home.)
(I got extremely wet.)
(I think this breaks the record of how wet I’ve gotten on a run.)
(Was super cold, had to shower, then go teach.)
(Ugh.)
STROM
OH GOD IT’S STORMY HERE and I have to go for a run.
We’re on like maximum flood alert because there’s a chance the Bow might get a mega-surge of water from the mountains and from surrounding rainstorms.
Edit from later: that was a super windy run, but no Bow overflow!
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