Boulder Pass, Ptarmigan Lake, Banff N. P. - August 14, 2010

[Lori S.]

Snow in mountains in August? That's not uncommon, at least not in Norway. In July, at our mountain cabin, we had freezing temperatures so low that many plants were damaged. Even well adapted mountain plants suffered.
But here at the coast that never happens (I cross my fingers).

No, it's not uncommon here either, and can occur at any time during the brief, cool summer... if it's raining here, it may be snowing at high elevations.  I thought it would be interesting to note for those who do not experience northern mountain weather, though.
While we've not seen a damaging frost at city elevation in July (yet  ), I have seen frost on the grass down by the river in every month through the summer.
Today, it's 5 deg C and drizzling in Calgary... supposed to get to a high of 10.  Where'd our blue skies go?!?

[Hoy]

Yes, of course....
Maybe your blue skies have travelled eastwards? The weather forecast the next week is very good here, and today has been very fine but last week we had heavy rain filling a bucket in one night.