Predicted weather in Alberta Canada

Just select your community from the Alberta map or the lower box to the right and you will get current conditions and the predictions you need, along with any appropriate weather warnings and watches.

Normal weather: Alberta Canada

Alberta experiences the presences of all major types of air masses throughout the course of a typical year.

Most of the winter we have a maritime polar airmass during the milder periods, continental polar when it's cold and continental arctic during the occasional deep-freeze. Tropical air mass often enters our region in the summertime.

Baroclinic zones, zones of sharp temperature change, separate two differing air masses. Sometimes they have troughs and fronts in them and are responsible for a significant portion of our annual precipitation.

As you would expect, temperatures in the southern part of the province are usually warmer than in the north. In July, the warmest month, daily average temperatures, including nighttime, range from about 18°C in the south to 13°C in the north and the western mountains. Midwinter average temperatures typically range from -10°C in the south to -24°C in the north on a map of Alberta. The coldest ever was -54°C. Not your typical weather in Alberta Canada.

What about Chinooks?

And it can dry everything out rather quickly.

Precipitation and drought often lead to problems. Most of it falls in the foothills, even causing extensive flooding in Calgary every few years. Most of it falls between May and July, also.

But drought can happen anytime, anywhere. All that sun may be pleasant, but when the crops are dying of thirst, you know somebody's complaining.

The climate and weather in Alberta Canada gives us three distinct ecoregions. The dry south is mostly grassland and farmland. The colder north has a lot of wooded area, the Boreal Forest. The third major ecoregion is the alpine and uplands to the southwest. Within these categories, an astute observer will find numerous ecological subcategories.
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