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Snowfall WARNINGs for Edmonton & surrounding areas.  Winter Storm WARNINGs further West.
For the latest advisories, check here: www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/warnings

The heaviest snow this morning was stretching from Drayton Valley to Red Deer at 7am.
Edmonton had some light snow overnight & the snow should intensify later this morning & afternoon.
We're still anticipating 10-15cm of snow today & a couple cm overnight & early Friday.

As we talked about yesterday, there's a feed of moisture streaming in from the Pacific.
That mild, moist air is slamming into an arctic airmass dropping out of the north.
Where those two collide, we're getting heavy snow.

But, the snowfall is only half of the story.
We're getting some gusty wind in the snow zone as well.
Blowing snow will continue to be a problem on roads throughout the day.
Wind chills are expected to make it feel in the -25 range this afternoon in the Capital Region.
Further north, wind chills will be in the -30 range in the Peace Country this afternoon.

So, conditions get worse through the day today and then gradually improve through the day Friday.
The snow will taper off in W & NW Alberta tonight.
In Edmonton, the snow tapers off by midday Friday.  We may even see a few sunny breaks late Friday.
Clearing & cold this weekend.  Daytime highs in the -20 range and morning lows near -30.
Wind doesn't look much stronger than 10-15km/h, but that's enough to make it FEEL 5 to 10 degrees colder with the wind chill.

Looking LONG RANGE:
It still appears we'll pull out of the deep-freeze by Wed or Thu of next week.
Daytime highs will return to near 0 by the end of next week.


Here's the Edmonton forecast:

Today - Blowing snow.  10-15cm
Wind: NE 20-30km/h with gusts to 40.
Temperature falling to -15
Wind chill in -20s all day


Tonight - Periods of snow. 2-5cm.
Wind:  NE 15-20km/h
Low:  -19
Wind chill near -30 overnight & early Fri morning


Friday - Mostly cloudy. Flurries in the morning.  Snow ending midday.
Wind:  NW 15-20
Temperature falling to -22  
Wind Chill in -25 to -30 range


Saturday - Partly cloudy.
Morning Low:  -26
Afternoon High:  -21

Sunday - Mainly sunny.
Morning Low:  -26
Afternoon High:  -20

Monday - Partly cloudy.
Morning Low:  -23
Afternoon High:  -15

Tuesday - Mainly sunny.
Morning Low:  -22
Afternoon High:  -13