Wacky Weather Coast to Coast

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Environment Canada’s Meterologists score a "B" for this three month prediction which accurately predicted the above normal temps on the east coast, below normal temps in Prince George and across the Prairies.  

Santa isn’t the only arrival from the North Pole.  This nasty cold spell has settled in, and the worst is yet to come. 

Here are some of the B.C. temperatures expected for Wednesday  as B.C. remains the centre of the cold front:   If you have looked out the window and wondered when this bitter cold snap will end lets look ahead. On Wednesday the temperature is expected to be

Prince George -31
Kelowna  -23
Kamloops  -25
Vancouver -3
Prince Rupert -9
Ft St. John -35
Ft. Nelson -34
Quesnel  -28
Terrace -24
Mackenzie -31

That’s not to say the rest of the country will be out of the  deep freeze, Wednesday doesn’t look all that hot  for everything west of Kenora:

Calgary -35
Edmonton, -32
Grande Prairie -36
Saskatoon -25
Regina -26
Winnipeg -21

Oh the cold will bring along a friend, as both the south and north coast of B.C. will not only have cold, but "in-flow" winds and there are more windy conditions for the interior as well.

On the plus side,  Prince George is expected to climb out  Big Chill Thursday with a high of +2. Ft. St. John will see a high of -1, in Prince Rupert the temperature will climb to +6, while in Vancouver it will reach +9.

We aren’t the only ones in the country experiencing  unusual late fall weather.

The Lower mainland  was hit with snow yesterday, downing power lines, making roads impossible.  Some 40 thousand B.C. Hydro customers (mostly on Vancouver Island) in the dark. Blizzard warnings were in effect  throughout the lower mainland.

On Wednesday in Toronto the temperature will climb to +16 with a low of +12 on Wednesday. In the nation’s capital, Ottawa the temperature will reach +13 on Wednesday cooling off to +5 Wednesday night.

It doesn’t stop there. 

On the East Coast, former CTV News Reporter Del Archer says the weather in Nova Scotia  has been on the other end of the scale "It has been, if not the warmest November on record, certainly very close to it. It’s true there have been a couple of heavy duty wind and rain storms of less than eighteen hours duration, but generally, temperatures have hovered at between 10 and 18 degrees Celsius for most of the month. It is not unusual to see folks strolling Halifax streets in T-shirts and shorts under clear skies and remarking in wonder at the foul weather being experienced on the west coast and the prairies, something more common on this side of the country in times past." 

And the outlook for the next few days ?  "More of that same warm weather" says Archer, who adds "We’ll take it!!"

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