It’s been cold. It’s been wet. And man, it’s been slushy. But we appear to be out of the woods, according to Environment Canada
Upwards of 20 centimetres of snow fell in on the North Shore Sunday, turning to rain early Monday morning.
“It kind of made for a bit of a sloppy Monday morning commute,” said Ross Macdonald, Environment Canada meteorologlist.
The Arctic air flow that’s had us bundling up and shoveling our sidewalks has now run its course, Macdonald said, with a new Pacific frontal system bringing in waves of warmer temperatures and rain.
“We were in the deep freeze here for two weeks with the cold, cold Arctic air coming right down from the Yukon and the Beaufort (Sea),” he said. “We’ve flushed it all out now more or less.”
Whether we’re in for a white Christmas like Irving Berlin wrote about or not, will depend largely on whether there’s enough snow accumulated in your yard to withstand with the melt.
“We may actually luck out and Christmas Day could be dry right across most of B.C. in between weather systems,” he said. “It doesn’t look like we’re going to see much in the way of snow.”
