#yyc — Public Fediverse posts

Calgary mayor says brief shutdown of water main coming in September
https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/calgary-mayor-says-brief-shutdown-of-water-main-coming-in-september/

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Separate, maintained #BikeLanes is what enabled me to bike year round in Calgary, Alberta. Fight it out with the cars on roads shrunk by dirty, hardened snow mounds? No thanks. This city opened up a whole new way of winter life for me & our province is threatening to take it away #yyc #yyccc #abpoli

Byelection called for Calgary-Shaw riding: chief electoral officer
https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/byelection-called-for-calgary-shaw-riding-chief-electoral-officer/

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🔥 Calgary Urban Heat: How the Solid-to-Tree Ratio drives an 8°C gap

My Summer 2025 ML satellite analysis reveals a direct relationship between a community's built-to-canopy footprint and surface temperature (LST):

🌳 Cooling Refuges (~29.5–31°C): Roxboro, Rideau Park, Discovery Ridge, Eau Claire (mature canopies + river valleys).
🔥 Northeast Heat Dome (~37–38°C): Marlborough, Rundle, Temple (dense low-rise footprint, minimal mature canopy).
🏗️ New Suburbs: Seton, Redstone, Rangeview (canopy lag: fully built out, but young saplings need years to mature).

🌲 Urban trees are not decorative landscaping — they are critical municipal climate infrastructure.

#GIS #RemoteSensing #YYC #EarthObservation #Calgary #SpatialDataScience #LandCover #MachineLearning #Geoscience #GreennessOfCalgary #Rstats #UrbanTrees #TreeCanopy #UrbanHealth

🔥 The Green Illusion: Why Zoning-Level Analysis Changes the Picture

📊 Gross community statistics can be misleading. When measuring an entire neighborhood, large municipal parks and green buffers inflate the overall 'greenness' score.

❗ When we filter the data down exclusively to actual Residential Land Use Districts in established communities, the picture changes significant:
🔹 Unvegetated/Impervious surfaces (Solid) explode to ~80% (79.22%) of the total zoned area.
🔹 Vegetative classes collapse: Functional lawns and canopy cover are compressed into narrow margins (Lawn: 2.15%, Forest: 0.59%), with community-level sparsed trees (Park) accounting for only 17.87%.

☝️ Moving from macro-boundaries to parcel-level zoning exposes the true physical density of Calgary’s residential footprint.

#GIS #RemoteSensing #EarthObservation #Calgary #SpatialDataScience #LandCover #MachineLearning #Geoscience #GreennessOfCalgary #Rstats #YYC #DataScience #Urban #Sentinel

Fall spot in Lindsay park in #yyc. Working thru my backlog, this is from last year. I go here a lot at lunch as there are graffiti artists who are working hard to beautify it. It changes constantly so worth going back regularly. But also just a really pretty urban park so a good spot for that, too.

https://kittylambda.com/?p=pictures_2025-10-22_fall_scenes

After it has rained all day.

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Holy Lightening, Batman!

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I did not know that we have salamanders in Calgary. #yyc #wildlife

Fun storm in #yyc last night

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Dear people in #Calgary : Where can I get distilled water and shaving cream on a Sunday night? Will be 8 pm when our plane lands. All your drugstores appear closed.

Edit: Local friend has helped us, thank you

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