MAY 2023

  

For annual ❄️ WEATHER DATA ☔ <= over the years. 

🔥 🚒 May has been a month of fires across Canada. Alberta (546), Saskatchewan (192), Manitoba, Northern Ontario, Nova Scotia (CBC article, Tantallon Fire, Barrington Lake fire).

 

May 30

May 25 – I was glad I'd brought the planters in! 

May 17

I have never seen a vertical wall of smoke like this one near Fox Creek, Alberta on Sunday.

And the strangest thing about this moment was I couldn't smell any smoke. #ABfire #ABfires pic.twitter.com/I6vmJvUay4

— Kyle Brittain (@KyleBrittainWX) May 17, 2023

May 18

 I am ready for a warm up. I think we are over the dip in temperatures. 

May 17

 I rolled out of bed Wednesday, and checked the thermometers. It was 1 C., and I'm glad I brought the hanging baskets in. The Weather Network said we were at 0.  Today we are a cold. There is frost out back in the yard. Out front we are good. I remember the year we had a spring frost which took out a lot of the milkweed. 

🔥 They've 87 active wildfires in Alberta, 30 in Saskatchewan. It is massive, though, with 425,000 hectares that have burned. Sadly, they cut back on firefighters, disbanding a group of specialists: 

A history of cuts to Alberta's firefighting budget, explained

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May 2/3

The storm is still moving counterclockwise!

You can't even see us on the radar today!

Hooray, hooray, the first of May!

The clouds were pretty. I ran in to see what the radar looked like.

The radar showed snow in Northern Ontario, with little pop-up clouds here as the system slowly turned counter clockwise.