April 20
Real winter has returned to Alberta. Cold, windy, snowy. Numerous weather warnings, blizzard warnings, and winter storm watches to the south and east since the last post, but have heard no real big weather stories so far.
Light snow started here Friday night, continued all day yesterday with occasional heavy bits, and it’s still snowing pretty good now with a nasty northwest wind. Looking at conditions around the province there are many spots reporting -10C at noon, many others with windchills in the -20 range. We have close to 10cm on the ground, most of it arriving last night and this morning. To the south, the snow piled up a bit more Friday night and Saturday, with reports coming out of the chatroom of 45cm near Waterton , 20cm in 5 hours at Pincher Creek, and 20cm in Calgary.
Watching the AMA highway cameras over the past few days as the storm progressed has been very interesting, today they are showing the entire province getting snow. Yesterday it was brown in Lloydminister and Oyen, today they are covered.
All the best goodies are now forecast to miss us to the northeast tomorrow and instead dump on Edmonton and Cold Lake, but after watching the models and forecasts try to deal with this mess for the past few days, I will not be surprised to see a good amount here. Edmonton was supposed to miss out on this whole thing while Regina got buried under 3 feet, and now it’s the other way around.
It’s all good, we can use the moisture.
Mwahahaha!! We needed all this and we got it! One problem is..This weekend temperatures are expected to bump back into the teens and low 20’s which will cause some major flooding in areas. This is going to be good for the grass..but will be dangerous to possibly damaging homes and flooding many basements.
April 21st, 2008 at 9:16 pm