CBC Alberta and Saskatchewan have teamed up for a new pilot series on weather and climate change on the prairies. Meteorologist Christy Climenhaga will bring her expert voice to the conversation to help explain weather phenomena and climate change and how it impacts everyday life.
If you feel like this winter has been a weather roller-coaster, you aren’t alone.
From mild and melting to snowstorms to -10 C and really windy, the fluctuations seem to come out of nowhere. But in fact, this everything-but-the-kitchen-sink sort of prairie weather is often the result of the dreaded Alberta Clipper.
Sound ominous? Well, let’s
