Winter weather brings parts of the Prairies their first fall snow
Winter conditions have arrived early on the Prairies, in time for Thanksgiving. Parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan are seeing their first snowfall of the season this holiday weekend, resulting in some messy travel
Parts of Alberta saw their first snowfall of the season during this Thanksgiving long weekend.
An upper-level trough bringing a long-weekend chill to Western Canada helped bring some snow to Alberta Saturday and Sunday. Calgary and Edmonton, Alta., saw their first fall snowfall this weekend, with minimal accumulations recorded.
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Calgary, Alta., saw its first fall snowfall this weekend. (Connor O'Donovan/The Weather Network)
Up next for the snowfall will be southwestern Saskatchewan, forecast to see it move in on Monday as it exits southeastern Alberta.
Temperatures plunge across southern Alberta as snow lingers
Both Calgary and Edmonton received their first fall snowfall this weekend.
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) has continued some of the snowfall warnings for parts of Alberta, along with special weather statements.
Bands of wet snow pushed across the Calgary area Saturday evening, with the airport officially reporting 1 cm of snowfall accumulation by early Sunday morning.
Last fall, the first snowfall of the year at the Calgary airport occurred on Oct. 12 (1 cm). In fact, it’s the airport's earliest instance of the first snowfall since September 2019, when 34.4 cm of snowfall occurred in the final few days of the month.
By Sunday, most of the snow has shifted across the southern portion of the province, with additional, wet snow expected throughout the day.
Temperatures across Alberta fall below the freezing mark, with the wind chills making it feel like the negative double digits on Sunday night.
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Snow moves into Saskatchewan on Monday
Thanksgiving Monday will see the snow push across extreme southeastern Alberta, also moving into southwestern Saskatchewan to give parts of the province their first snowfall of the fall.
Maple Creek, Shaunavon, Swift Current, Sask., are forecast to see their first snowfall, with a wintry-mix forecast even for the Regina area.
