lol...uncommon, seriously?
There was 2 last week. There are dozens of chinook events annually of varying degrees. What's uncommon is going for extended periods of time here without one.
Point of fact, chinooks happen year round here. They're just more apparent in winter.
All i know is we are still well above average here. 15c in november lol. Winter doesent look close.
Having lived in Southern Alberta for 33 years, I can firmly state that you are absolutely wrong about chinooks being "uncommon."
and if that's not enough...from the good ol' Canadian Encyclopedia
In Canada, the chinook belt lies almost exclusively within southern and central Alberta. The wind occurs in every season, but it is more distinctive and numerous in the winter, when the unseasonable warming it brings differentiates it from the normal cold winter weather. In southwestern Alberta, one in 3 winter days is a chinook day; its frequency drops to one in 5 in the northeast. The maximum daily temperature anomaly associated with the wind ranges from +13°C in the northwest to +25°C in the southeast. The temperature rise at the onset of the event is abrupt and steep; an increase of 27°C in 2 minutes has been observed.
Thats one way to keep the white house republican.
READ and be less Ignorant.
every country has issues, but for the average citizen Canada is a better place to live than most of the US