Snow from snowfall warning reserved mostly for Golden City
By Nelson Daily Staff
Rossland took the brunt of the first snow fall of the season in the West Kootenay as Mother Nature dumped upwards of 20-25 centimeters of the white stuff Tuesday morning.
“Sometimes when you get the planets aligned just right this is what we get,” Chris Cowan, a meteorologist at the Castlegar weather office, said Tuesday.
Cowan said a cold front came down from the north and that front, coupled with moisture from the west, made for a perfect, winter, storm.
The Castlegar weather office issued a snowfall warning Monday afternoon, calling for an accumulation of 10 to 15 centimeters starting in the evening and into Tuesday morning.
“It could have been a lot worse but I think the lakes around the area saved us,” Cowan explained. “A couple of degrees colder and most areas would have got hit.”
Cowan said the region is not out of the woods just yet as the cold front continues to hold.
The forecast for Tuesday night was for 60 percent chance of flurries early in the morning and 30 percent chance of rain showers in the afternoon. Snow level rising to 1000 metres in the afternoon.
The weather clears until Friday when there’s a call for 40 percent chance of flurries or rains shows.
But Cowan said any snow falling most likely will be reserved for the highway passes.
Then temperatures should return to the normal above zero marks.
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