Our neighbours to the east and south might argue that they got more snow over the past week than we have in the Kapuskasing area.
Environment Canada only has Kapuskasing’s total of 25.8 centimetres – that’s ten inches. Most of it fell on Wednesday.
Speaking to us late Monday morning, meteorologist Geoff Coulson advised against putting away your shovel yet.
“Kapuskasing could pick up another ten to 15 centimetres from an approaching system right now that’s near Lake of the Woods,” he says. “It’s going to keep moving east over the next number of hours. We’re expecting snow to get going in the Kapuskasing area this afternoon, continue during the overnight hours.”
The thermometer could climb over the freezing mark this evening, changing the snow to rain, but back to snow and ice when it plummets to -15 overnight.
Meanwhile, the nice weather we’ve had so far on this March Break will get even better for the second half of the week. Coulson is expecting temperatures into the low double-digits on the plus side on Friday. Normal this time of year is a high of -1.
“So spring-like temperatures as we head into the weekend, but the longer term forecast into next week and the start of astronomical spring brings the temperatures back down to more seasonal values. So again that’s going to be daytime highs close to the freezing mark, overnight lows well below freezing.”
Astronomical spring arrives at 5:01am Thursday, March 20th.
