{"id":407225,"date":"2025-11-27T01:07:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T01:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/407225\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T01:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T01:07:17","slug":"winter-arrives-with-a-vengeance-in-alberta-with-more-snow-cold-in-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/407225\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter arrives with a vengeance in Alberta with more snow, cold in forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just days after a large swath of southern Alberta was hit with its first big snowfall of the winter, there\u2019s another storm system bearing down on the province.<\/p>\n

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Environment Canada is forecasting the snow to start falling Thursday afternoon in the form of flurries for Edmonton and Calgary, while more southerly communities such as Lethbridge and Medicine Hat are expected to see heavier snowfall.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we progress through Thursday afternoon and into the evening hours, snow moves up from the southwest and does reach the Calgary area right around the late supper hour and into the overnight, and eventually will cover most of the region,\u201d said Global News weather specialist Phil Darlington.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt does taper off Friday morning, so the commute for Thursday evening (will be) not so bad, but Friday morning you are going to want to take your time,\u201d added Darlington.<\/p>\n

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Some areas of the southern foothills and extreme southerly parts of the province could get up to 25 cm by the time the snow starts to taper off Friday night.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tThe heaviest snow is expected to fall over the extreme southerly parts of Alberta where between 15 and 25 centimetres of snow is forecast for Lethbridge and into the foothills.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n

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The temperatures are also expected to plunge, with the daytime high forecast to be around -10 C on Friday and Saturday, well below the normal daytime high of around zero at this time of year.<\/p>\n

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Overnight temperatures in Lethbridge and Medicine Hat could also dip to near -20 C, about 10 degrees below normal.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor this coming weekend, we\u2019re looking at the temperatures dropping right across the province, but then into next week we\u2019re getting a little bit of a rebound that we weren\u2019t originally forecasting, and then we\u2019re going to drop again into the following weeks \u2014 you know, 10 to 15 degrees below normal temperatures,\u201d said Environment Canada meteorologist, Alysa Pederson.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The sudden arrival of winter is being blamed on the \u2018polar vortex<\/a>\u2018, a large area of low pressure and cold air surrounding the north pole that is sending abnormally cold and stormy weather into the more populated areas of North America..<\/p>\n

\u201cThe polar vortex is something that always exists (but) sometimes we have a weakening of the jet stream and that\u2019s essentially what creates that vortex,\u201d said Pederson.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen that jet stream weakens, that cold is able to slump south, impacting parts of southern Canada or even in some cases as far south as Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over the longer range, Environment Canada is predicting a weak La Nina to develop.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo La Nina for our area typically means cooler temperatures (and) snowier patterns for the winter months, so December, January and February \u2014 so that\u2019s essentially what our longer-range forecasts are indicating is on average cooler than normal,\u201d said Pederson.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we could see a couple of days at least in the month of December where we do hit daytime highs of -20.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tEnvrionment Canada\u2019s latest seasonal forecast\u00a0 predicts higher-than-normal snowfall across much of Alberta this winter.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tSource: Environment Canada\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

The seasonal forecast from Environment Canada also predicts higher-than-normal snowfall amounts over much of Alberta for the months of December, January and February.<\/p>\n

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