Siouxie

Glad to hear they are getting flights instead - Phew!!!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...alla-1.5404005

scrubbedexpat091

Probably wise.

I only drove from the coast to interior once in the winter, and never again, it wasn't even a horrible day, but the roads were still a mess, interior is a no go for me in winter.

Danny B

Yes a good decision. My VW Golf has good tires, but for that amount of snow I'd like to be in an SUV with 4x4

caretaker

The nice warm weather we've been enjoying is about to give way to seasonal values.

Danny B

Yikes.
Kamloops starts to get really cold on Monday. I might have to dig out my block heater cable.

Paul_Shepherd

So looks like east, west an prairies are getting snow....no such luck in southern Ontario..... it seems its no longer a good place to own a snowmobile.... been a terrible "winter" here so far. We have some temporary cold for 24 hours before heading back to plus 8 again!! How ridiculous!!

BristolUK

We're about to get down to -17 without it being the wind-chill that takes us there.

caretaker

That's the old forecast; we'll have -30 lows in a few days. It's normal, I just go out and plug in a few hours before starting up.

Atlantic Xpat

We've apparently had 1/3rd of our annual snowfall in the couple of weeks since 23rd Dec. It's certainly been rather snowy - first time in 15 years I've had to snow clear on Christmas Day itself.
Currently blowing a gale outside with -10C so a hefty wind-chill. The dogs walk this evening was a brisk one!

scrubbedexpat091

Bit of a mixed bag possible here tonight and into tomorrow according to Environment Canada rain and snow in the mix, current 4 overnight low is expected to be 1.

Tonight Cloudy. Snow mixed with rain beginning late this evening. Snowfall amount 2 to 4 cm. Becoming windy near midnight. Low plus 1.

Fri, 10 Jan Snow at times heavy mixed with rain changing to rain near noon. Snowfall amount 5 to 10 cm. Rainfall amount 20 mm. Wind southeast 40 km/h except gusting to 70 near the water in the morning and early in the afternoon. High plus 4. Night Rain. Amount 10 to 15 mm. Windy in the evening. Temperature steady near plus 3.

caretaker

In 2 or 3 hours I should scoot out and plug the van in.
At some point this winter it will be 10 - 15 degrees colder, it's a fact of life on the prairies.

scrubbedexpat091

Well upside are those cold but sunny days.

Light rain currently, no sign of snow yet.

BristolUK

We've not had a great deal of snow so far. I'm not going to get carried away because I remember a few years ago we'd had nothing by Christmas and then we had the all time record post-Christmas snowfall and it wasn't far short of the all time record for the whole of winter.

But if the predicted amounts of snowfall prove to be accurate, come next Thursday when we have 15-20cm predicted, we will have seen just under 50cms for December through to Jan 16th.
Normally we'd have 118cm fall in these two months. So we'd need about another 70cm in the last two weeks of January to be "normal" and hopefully we won't.

scrubbedexpat091

Snowed for like 20 minutes early in the morning then rain, snow is gone, never stuck to the street, at least in our little part of the city,

scilly

Our part of the city got about 1 cm of snow .......... it started at around 3 am, and was mixed rain and snow, with heavy snow at times, until around noon.

There is still snow on the grass and some sidewalks, but slush on the roads.