Looks like Edmonton is in for the coldest weather since January!
Get the winter coats, toques & mitts ready again.
Boots too. We're gettin some snow with this incoming cold.
That snow has been falling rather heavily on parts of W & NW Alberta overnight. Many of the areas in the snowfall warning zone received around 10cm of snow overnight.
That warning includes the Grande Prairie region, Hinton-Grande Cache & Jasper.
Those areas will get another 10-20cm of snow by the end of the day tomorrow.
For Grande Prairie, it looks like it'll be lighter, but rather steady snow today & then a shot of heavier snow tomorrow.
In the Capital Region:
The radar's been picking up precipitation just E, N & NW of the city this morning.
That precip should stay north of the city for most (if not all) of today.
There may be a few occasional flurries, but the bulk of our snow will start either overnight or early tomorrow morning & continue through the day before tapering off early Friday.
By Friday morning, we'll likely have between 5 & 15cm of snow in the Capital Region.
On March 3rd, we had 1-2cm of snow in most of Edmonton & 20+cm of snow in Stony Plain & Devon.
I think we may see a wide spread in snowfall totals again tomorrow. Higher amounts of snow are more likely in northern parts of the Capital Region.
The snow should taper off Friday morning, but another pulse of the moisture could bring some snow back into the picture for the weekend.
The cold air looks like it's going nowhere in a hurry.
All the indicators that were pointing towards a hasty retreat to the east are now gone.
We haven't had a daytime high below -10 since January 30th and the last time we had 4 straight days as cold as what's setting up for Thu/Fri/Sat/Sun was the last 4 days of January.
Here's the Edmonton forecast:
Today - Cloudy. Occasional flurries.
High: 0
Tonight - Cloudy with periods of snow overnight. 1-3cm possible.
Low: -13
Thursday - Cloudy with snow. 3-8cm possible.
High: -11
Friday - Snow in the morning. 1-3cm possible.
Cloudy with a 30% chance of flurries in the afternoon.
Morning Low: -13
Afternoon High: -10
Saturday - Mostly cloudy. 40% chance of flurries, especially in the morning.
Morning Low: -13
Afternoon High: -9
Sunday - Mostly cloudy. 40% chance of flurries.
Morning Low: -14
Afternoon High: -9
Monday - Clearing.
Morning Low: -16
Afternoon High: -4
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Beware the Ides of March - Mar 13, 2013
CTV Edmonton
Published Wednesday, March 13, 2013 6:47AM MDT
Published Wednesday, March 13, 2013 6:47AM MDT