Fluctuating temperatures are becoming the norm for Edmonton.<\/p>\n
While Thursday started on a warm note, it quickly flipped to wind gusts and a yellow warning for snow squalls.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s being followed by a forecasted windchill of minus-20 Celsius, with the chance of flurries and rain in the next few days.<\/p>\n
The snow squall is expected to cause reduced visibility and wind gusts up to 80 kilometres per hour. Meteorologist Brian Proctor says this was caused by cold wind blowing from the north of British Columbia.<\/p>\n
Proctor adds the fluctuating temperature is normal within the central part of Alberta.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re right along the storm track this time of year, typically, and so we see these oscillations of these systems pass across,\u201d said the Environment Canada meteorologist. \u201cAnd that\u2019s really what we\u2019re looking at in the short-term forecast too, as we start seeing the daytime highs, Friday minus-13, Saturday minus-6. By the time you get to Tuesday and Monday, plus-3 again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Proctor says the Edmonton region may experience above seasonal temperatures with more precipitation up north. And spring may arrive in the middle of March this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt does look like it\u2019s going to be normal to just seasonal to just above seasonal, so maybe a degree or two above normal temperatures on average moving forward,\u201d Proctor said. \u201cSo the La Ni\u00f1a really has waned, it\u2019s done.\u201d<\/p>\n
The City of Edmonton once again activated its extreme weather response Thursday, lasting until March 4; public facilities will be open to those wanting to stay warm.<\/p>\n
Edmontonians are advised to call the crisis diversion team if they see homeless people outside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fluctuating temperatures are becoming the norm for Edmonton. While Thursday started on a warm note, it quickly flipped…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-505553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-edmonton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}