A special weather statement has been issued for Edmonton Thursday morning, warning of heavy bands of snow beginning tonight through to Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
Environment and Climate Change Canada says locally rapid snow accumulation and poor visibility should be expected. <\/p>\n
\u201cRapidly deteriorating weather conditions are expected with reduced visibilities in heavy snow over localized areas,\u201d the weather agency. <\/p>\n
It adds that snowfall totals will be highly variable, but some areas may see quick accumulations of up to 10 centimetres of snow. <\/p>\n
Blowing snow is also possible overnight Thursday and into Friday afternoon, causing poor visibility. <\/p>\n
Drivers should prepare for quickly changing and deteriorating travel conditions. <\/p>\n
These winter-like conditions comes after tempertures in the low 20s earlier this week. <\/p>\n
The warning of snow accompanies a descent into cooler temperatures Thursday, with a forecasted high of 3 C and a chance of flurries in the evening. The forecasted low is -3 C, according to ECCC, but the wind chill could make it feel more like -10 C.<\/p>\n
Friday will be chilly again \u2014 with flurries to be expected and wind gusting up to 60 km\/h. The high will reach just 1 C with a wind chill of -11 C in the morning.<\/p>\n
Periods of snow could continue on Saturday, ECCC says, as temperatures are set to hover between -2 C and -5 C.<\/p>\n
Sunday will be cloudy with a high of 2 C and a low of -6 C.<\/p>\n
These temperatures are a far cry from the heat Calgarians got for the first three days of the week \u2014 Monday and Tuesday soared to 22 C and Wednesday was 15 C. <\/p>\n
The weather agency says it will begin to warm up again for the start of the work week. Tuesday has a forecasted high of 12 C.<\/p>\n
According to ECCC, the normal high for this time of year is 14 C, while the low is -2 C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A special weather statement has been issued for Edmonton Thursday morning, warning of heavy bands of snow beginning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-625335","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\/625335","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=625335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}