By Ronald Quaroni

White Christmas predicted after snowy November

Dec 7, 2018 | 1:00 PM

Snowshovels have been Prince Albert residents’ best friends lately.

The snowflakes fell fast and furious this past November. The total precipitation amount for the three-month average is still fairly normal though.

 Prince Albert Wildfire Management Meteorologist, Henri Dagenais said Prince Albert has around 28.6 cm of snow on the ground, which is a normal amount of precipitation for this year, he said.

“The average is usually around 28.8 cm. The difference though is that most of that snow fell in November. September and October (precipitation) was well below average,” he said.

For those worried whether a white Christmas is in store, Dagenais said we are in the clear.

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“Rule of thumb for everywhere in Saskatchewan is if it snows before Halloween that snow will melt. If it falls after Halloween that snow will stay,” he said.

Although it was a precipitation-filled November the city is are far off the record amount of snow for this time of year which was set in 1955 with 53 cm on the ground.

The most snow to fall in one day was 17 cm on November 13, 1973.

Ron.Quaroni@jpbg.ca

Twitter: @RonaldQuaroni