https://electroverse.net/winter-nightmare-hits-the-prairies/
Roads were shut across Saskatchewan and Alberta due to poor visibility from the blowing and drifting snow on Sunday, and police urged people to just stay home.
Kindersley, Saskatchewan received an accumulative total of 47.6 cm (1.56 ft) of snow over the weekend, making it the city’s largest two-day snowfall in recorded history. Saturday alone saw 35.8 cm (1.2 ft), a reading that smashed the community’s all-time daily record of 21.3 cm (8.4 inches) set on March 17, 1974 (solar minimum of cycle 20)–note, that record is for any day of year, not just for November.
The Kindersley storm delivered more snow in two days than during the whole of last winter, prompting some locals to call it the worst storm they’ve ever seen in the area (westcentralonline.com). The data coming out of Environment Canada are certainly proving that to be true, and while 47.6 cm is the official accumulation, blizzards conspired to create snowdrifts of over 5 feet in height.
At least four other locations in the Saskatchewan also received over 30 centimetres (1 foot) of snow — Prince Albert (37 cm), Codette (33 cm), Limerick (31 cm), and Saskatoon (31 cm)–Saskatoon fell just shy of its all-time one-day record of 36 cm set on Jan 10, 2007 (solar minimum of cycle 23):
The neighboring province of Alberta also received unprecedented November dumps, and it wasn’t just humans dealing with the aftermath — horses had to plow their way through 7 feet snowdrifts in order to escape their riding arena near Burdett:
“Snow will soon become a thing of the past,” the climate scientists reliably informed us — and yet here is this poor bastard in early November, 2020:
“It just gradually worsened and worsened over Saturday, and then all day Sunday, it was just blowing and snowing — and it just didn’t give up,” said Gast.
“The way it came in with so much wind, and the size of drifts, was just — it’s nothing like we’ve ever seen before.”
Heather Gast, pictured here, shows a snow drift dwarfing a vehicle after the storm on the weekend hit her farm just south of Lethbridge, Alta.
Gast said they couldn’t see the sky until the storm cleared up on Monday morning.Similar scenes were captured across the Prairies (shown below), in what no doubt will enter the books as one of the biggest November storms in history.
And finally, to the west, rare November snowfall warnings have been issued for several regions of British Columbia, including parts of Metro Vancouver and Vancouver Island. The Environment Canada warnings cover the central Interior including the Cariboo, Prince George and Stewart-Nechako regions, as well as inland sections of the north coast and parts of Greater Vancouver.
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