{"id":840735,"date":"2026-08-01T16:51:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T16:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840735\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T16:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T16:51:19","slug":"albertas-august-forecast-is-out-and-some-of-us-arent-going-to-like-it-daily-hive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840735\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta&#8217;s August forecast is out and some of us aren&#8217;t going to like it | Daily Hive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The August forecast has arrived, and if you\u2019re hoping to escape the hot, dry conditions in Calgary or the soggy weather in Edmonton, well, we don\u2019t have much to say that will thrill you.<\/p>\n<p>We chatted with Environment and Climate Change Canada meteorologist Brian Proctor, who broke down what we can expect to see in Alberta this month.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll start in the south. Calgary has seen its share of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/calgary\/calgary-forecast-weather-august-long-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hot and dry weather<\/a> this summer, and according to Proctor, August is looking like more of the same, with temperatures expected to be in the normal to above-normal range.<\/p>\n<p>Proctor said Calgary will likely see temperatures around 25\u00b0C through much of the beginning of August, cooling to around 23\u00b0C by the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>Precipitation-wise, don\u2019t expect a whole lot to fall either. Proctor said Calgary and much of southern Alberta are expected to see normal to below-normal precipitation in the forecast for August.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCalgary looks to be fairly typical at this point in time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton, on the other hand, is looking cooler and wetter than usual.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right, Edmontonians. We are not out of the woods yet.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s already been a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/edmonton\/edmonton-summer-rainfall-record-weather\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">record-breaking summer for rainfall<\/a>, and all of that water sitting on the ground is actually helping create the conditions for even more thunderstorms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe sometimes refer to it as rinse and repeat,\u201d Proctor told us.<\/p>\n<p>At the Blatchford weather station, 533.8 mm of rain fell during June and July alone. That\u2019s already well above the previous record for the entire summer (June, July, and August), when 417 mm of rain fell in 1953.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019ve done is we\u2019ve put a tremendous amount of moisture out there,\u201d Proctor said, noting that ditches and sloughs outside the city are full.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s produced an incredible amount of moisture available for thunderstorms, and what moisture is for thunderstorms is gasoline,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>The Edmonton city centre typically sees around 60.7 mm of precipitation in August, but Proctor expects we\u2019ll surpass that this year.<\/p>\n<p>That also means temperatures from around Red Deer northward are expected to be slightly cooler than normal this month.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you were hoping we\u2019d finally dry out in August, we\u2019re sorry. Maybe September?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The August forecast has arrived, and if you\u2019re hoping to escape the hot, dry conditions in Calgary or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-840735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}