Get your shovels and snowblowers ready, we’re in for a big storm tonight and Friday.
A moist weather system from the Pacific is about to collide with a cool continental air mass and that will bring as much as 10 centimetres of snow for Prince George by Friday evening. The same system will dump 15-20 cm in the Bulkley Valley-Lakes District region between tonight and Friday night
Visibility will be significantly reduced during the height of the storm and drivers are advised to use extreme caution with changing road conditions. Rapidly-accumulating snow could make travel difficult.
It won’t be that cold on Friday with a high of -6 C and a low of -11 C predicted but the wind chill is forecast to hit -19 C. The real cold stuff hits the city on Saturday when skies clear and the Arctic air takes hold. The high on Saturday will only reach -16C, with a low of -30 C.
It gets worse. Sunday’s predicted high is -23 C and a low of -34 C. On Monday the low will be -36 C with a high still a bone-chilling -27 C, with no immediate relief in sight. Tuesday’s high will be -24 C and the low will be -36, warming only to -24 on Wednesday.
