Imagine walking out your door early in the morning before the sun came up, and seeing this:
Unless you live in the northern hemisphere, an aurora is not something you’d see except on rare occasions. This picture was taken in Edmonton, Canada, and is one reason why I’m looking to Rent Edmonton apartments once it’s time to move from Washington.
The other reason it’s interesting to me is because of the climate.
At it’s warmest, Edmonton can reach 94.1ºF, and at it’s coldest -54.9ºF. Not many places have such a tremendous temperature range for their record highs and lows. Because of it’s latitude so far north, Edmonton can get quite cold when the air from the nearby arctic blows in during the winter.
Snow can occur in all but three months at Edmonton, but with an average yearly snowfall of 48.62″, it is hardly a tremendous amount. 48.62″ may seem like a large amount to some, but consider that it is spread out across 9 months rather than most southern cities 2 to 4 months of winter weather. In many cases, some cities further south located in the U.S. receive much more snowfall on a month to month basis due to the moisture from the Gulf of Mexico enhancing the frozen precipitation when it does fall.
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