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[โ€“] buffing_lecturer@leminal.space 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Huh TIL

The maximum daily temperature anomaly associated with the wind ranges from +13ยฐC in the northwest to +25ยฐC in the southeast. The temperature rise at the onset of the event is abrupt and steep; an increase of 27ยฐC in 2 minutes has been observed.

[โ€“] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

They also create clippers on their way to the states, hence the term Alberta Clipper.

The chinook, which in part originates the Alberta clipper, usually brings relatively warm weather (often approaching 10ย ยฐC (50ย ยฐF) in the depths of winter) to southern Alberta itself, and the term is therefore not used in Alberta.

We uhhโ€ฆ. Just had a chinook last week, sorry.

[โ€“] buffing_lecturer@leminal.space 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I feel so uneducated on weather lol. I had no idea what a Chinook or Clipper were before now.

[โ€“] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Chinook is a helicopter and a Clipper is a basketball player.

๐ŸŒˆ The more you know ๐ŸŒˆ

[โ€“] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Does wind chill make water freeze faster?

[โ€“] Bluewing@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Yes. It pulls the surface heat out faster. But, the lakes have been frozen over for weeks now, (18" on the lake I live next to-- we are driving pickup trucks on it to go ice fishing).

I think so. Wind chill is a roundabout way of comparing the capacity for heat extraction of moving air vs stagnant air.