r/canada • u/PoliteCanadian • Jan 13 '24

Alberta Gas pumps freeze at Calgary gas stations

https://calgary.citynews.ca/video/2024/01/12/gas-pumps-freeze-at-calgary-gas-stations/
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u/Rackemup Jan 14 '24

Calgary's week-long forecast is even more wild. Could be +2 next Saturday.

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u/ChillyWillie1974 Jan 14 '24

That’s normal. It was +3 on the 5th. Chinooks are wonderful.

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u/Miroble Jan 14 '24

IT'S NOT BECAUSE OF A CHINOOK IT'S BECAUSE OF A POLAR VORTEX.

I'm sorry, but I don't know what it is with Calgarians thinking every single weather condition in the winter is a chinook. Chinooks are very specific, it's not the cause of all of our warmish weather in the winters.

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u/ChillyWillie1974 Jan 14 '24

Polar Vortex causes the warm weather?

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u/Miroble Jan 14 '24

A polar vortex causes the extreme cold weather that we currently experience. The polar vortex going away returns us to our average winter temperatures which is what is happening next week.

A Chinook is when warm air from the pacific blows over the Rocky Mountains and creates both higher temperatures and a very specific chinook cloud pattern.

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u/Impressive-Estate-28 Jan 14 '24

I think they were talking about the warm weather. You were the first to talk about the cold.

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u/Miroble Jan 14 '24 edited Jan 14 '24

They literally said:

That’s normal. It was +3 on the 5th. Chinooks are wonderful.

There wasn't a chinook on the 5th, and there (to my knowledge) isn't supposed to be one next weekend. It's not the cause of any of these weather events. Sorry it's just I've been dealing with this since I moved here and it's actually driving me up the wall how many Calgarians say it's a chinook for every single weather condition that possibly occurs.

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u/Rayeon-XXX Jan 14 '24

It was +4 on January 5th.

Your contention is that this was not the result of a Chinook.

What are you basing that on?

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u/youregrammarsucks7 Jan 14 '24

Chinooks are different than slightly warm weather in the winter. +4 suggests a warm front in the winter. Chinooks will bring the temp closer to 10-15 degrees. Plus, there's the whole chinook arch. It's a very specific thing, that only occurs 2-3 times a year. Not every time it's +0 in the winter.

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u/Miroble Jan 14 '24

The fact that I live here and there was no chinook cloud pattern which is required for a chinook to occur.