Originally posted by Rachel


Okay, I give. What's a chinook?

A Chinook is something that only happens in Southern Alberta it's an air pressure system from the mountains (I think..it's either that or from the praires, or maybe it's a combo of the two but I think it's the mountains) that takes place in the winter to increase the temp by quite a bit. One day we can be sitting at minus 40 and then the next day a chinook can role in and we can be in the low teens...a couple of times it's even gone up to the low twenties (celcius).

It's also the name of the most popular mall in Calgary but that's just a coinkydink.