More time on the couch...you got me!
Your area sounds like Denver, where I lived for ten years.
Very changeable weather. It could snow in the morning and be 65 in the afternoon.
Oh, ya. What you describe is called a ‘Chinook’ in S. AB. They are more pronounced, the further south you go in the Province. For example, on January 6, 1966, in Pincher Creek, AB, the temperature rose from −10°F to 36.0°F, in one hour. The first year I was in Calgary, in February, one day it was -8F and the next day, it reached 70°F and people were out in shorts!
Unfortunately, temperatures can drop almost as quickly. The first year I was in S. AB, Lethbridge to be precise, on August 15, 1992, I woke up to 6 inches of snow on the ground. The day before, August 14, it reached 72”F. On August 16, it was back up to 75°F.
The old saying in Calgary is, ‘If you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes.’