to each their own but for every "chinook" Calgary gets in the winter (a whole week seems a little high) the spring/fall weather in unpredictable...look at the May snowstorm or the one you had 2 days ago
I prefer predictable weather myself
Thats cool...I completely get that.
Oh please.
I've lived in Calgary for a few years and 1 week a month is an extreme exaggeration.
Maybe 1 - 2 weeks over the entire winter if you add them up. They are a nice break though. It also makes the city the car wash capital of Canada.
Calgary is also Freezing ass cold in the spring and fall once the sun goes down.
And much cooler in the summer come sunset.
Each city has it's pro's and con's.. including weather.
Just 15-20 years ago I much preferred Calgary for Traffic.
Now Edmonton blows them out of the water.
Downtown Calgary absolutely destroys Edmonton.
I have lived in Calgary for 20 years and I will disagree aboiut your perspective on Chinooks.
Being that this is a weather thread no sense in getting into a pissing match on which city is "better".
I am just talking about the weather here.
Your statement here makes it seem like it can be plus 10 in Calgary while its like -20 in Edmonton or something. Even though Edmonton doesn't get Chinooks like calgary does, when Calgary does get chinooks, Edmonton's weather during that period is usually nice too.. maybe not plus 10 nice, but decent nonetheless. Not often would you see an extreme difference in temperatures between the two cities, even with chinooks.
I am a bit of a weather fiend. I am constantly checking the weather in Calgary and other cities where I have friends and family and I take note of disparities. There are times when there is a 20 degree difference in temps betwee Edmonton and Calgary in the winter. Although most of the time its about a 10 degree difference when a chinook rolls in.
So I partially agree with you about the temp disparity but I'll take +10 over Zero every day of the week.
Thats just me though...other people might feel differently.
Summers in Edmonton are wetter and consequently have a much worse mosquito problem. The flip side of that is warmer summer nights in Edmonton.
I miss the warmer summer nights but I definitely do not miss the mosquitos.
So IMO there are some notable differences with the weather between Edmonton and Calgary.
All that being said I prefer the climate in the interior of BC over both cites.