Parts of the Prairies are in for a wintry wallop, with some areas in line to get 10-20+ cm of snow through Tuesday, thanks to dropping temperatures and a potent low-pressure system.
Parts of the Prairies are in for a wintry wallop, with some areas in Saskatchewan and Manitoba line to get 20-30+ cm of snow through Tuesday, thanks to dropping temperatures and two potent low-pressure systems.
The Yukon phenomenon: record Whitehorse snow nearly 300 percent of normal
Tyler Hamilton
It snowed before Halloween, and it never really stopped snowing.
As of April 5th, there s 70 cm of snow on the ground across Whitehorse, Yukon; for the city of 25,000, it s a tremendous amount – the most on record for April 4th.
For reference, the snowpack usually peaks around 30 cm of snow, and by late April, the snow base remarkably diminishes to near zero. The sheer resiliency of the Yukon snowpack is quite peculiar.
The region was even greeted by a rare atmospheric river back in early December. It s typical to get a meandering Jet Stream in La Niña conditions, along with above-normal precipitation across parts. The atmosphere essentially behaved like an El Niño for January, limiting the amount of frigid air available in the region; when the active storm track kicked in, excess moisture moved into Yukon. It rarely was too cold to snow.