![]() For the coming week, Environment Canada is calling for highs of between five and 10 degrees.Īnd he said this warmer-than-normal weather looks likely to stick around for a while. ![]() (Helen Pike/CBC)Īccording to David Stanfel, a lead meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada, normal daily high temperatures for this time of year are around three degrees. According to David Stanfel of Environment and Climate Change Canada, the next couple of weeks are likely to be five to 10 degrees above normal. It looks like the warmer-than-normal temperatures Calgary has been experiencing are going to stick around for a while. Prefer that to cross-country," Spenrath said. "It'd be nice to keep this going for a few more weekends, keep golfing in November. He was also getting a round in at Shaganappi on Sunday. Morgan Spenrath said he felt lucky the snow didn't stick around. "It's so funny, because there's a lot of cross-country skiers that really don't like that it's a golf course. "To my knowledge that not happened since before the mid-80s," McLaughlin said. McLaughlin said that this is the first time she's ever had to stop winterizing and preparing a course for skiers so that golfers could come back. She said the rapid weather changes melted all the snow, which changed plans. Their plan was to finish prepping the course for cross-country skiers this weekend. McLaughlin's volunteer-powered team has a lot of work to do when it comes to prepping golf courses for cross-country skiers, which is why she said it's important to get the timing right. But then we looked at the forecast, we had a two-week Chinook," she said. "People wanted to start skiing that week, and it was looking really good. She said golfers were on the course until snow hit in late October. Linda McLaughlin is the vice-president and grooming operations lead with Shaganappi Nordic Operations. Usually at this time of year cross-country skiing is well underway on the course just south of the Bow River. The snow and cold temperatures that hit the city near the end of October had the crews out preparing Shaganappi for cross-country skiing, but the return to warmer temperatures put that work on hold and brought out the temporary greens and pins. Really? At this time?' So it was a surprise," said Avendano. "He told me, 'Hey, guess what, I have a place to go play golf . ![]() Vicente Avendano's friend gave him the heads-up, so they snagged a tee-time at Shaganappi Point on Sunday. ![]() The city opened up both Shaganappi Point and Maple Ridge golf courses for winter play on temporary greens from Friday to Sunday. It's so warm in Calgary that golfing season started up again this weekend. ![]()
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