Sudden rise in temperatures very short-lived

Prince Albert residents had a chance to bask in almost balmy weather conditions late Wednesday. But it was expected to be a very short-lived respite from the chilly fall so far.

Environment Canada meteorologist Terri Lang told paNOW the pleasant pause in the early autumn cold was thanks to a weather system coming in from Alberta.

“It is actually a Chinook and this is a situation where it makes it all the way from southern Alberta across the bottom half of the province,” she said.

Lang added most parts in the Prince Albert region could expect the temperature to sneak above zero, but only for a few hours.

“As soon as the sun goes down [tonight] we’ll lose those temperatures, especially with so much snow cover around,” she said.

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Then things were expected to freeze up quickly because of a so-called Alberta Clipper that will bring rapidly declining temperatures.

Lang said it was important for motorists not to get fooled by the benign end to the day Wednesday.

“The roads, when they’re melted like this, will ice up and it will lead to black ice,” she said. “Sometimes that can fool us because we see it is glistening and we think it’s melted, but it is freezing.”

Lang said this is very much the ‘see-saw’ weather season and the dip in temperatures to around zero late Wednesday was not that unusual for Prince Albert. With a record low of -28 Celsius for today’s date and a record high of 12 C, she figured it was not that uncommon to have these sudden warm-ups.

glenn.hicks@jpbg.ca

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