Env Canada saying that there was 15.4cm of snow at Brandon airport yesterday. Above that very little overnight and up to this point. I'd say an effective depth of 10-12 on the ground in my neighbourhood. Would be interested on the water to snow ratio for what fell.... You'd normally say about 1mm to 1cm but based on how dense this stuff is I'm thinking normal rules dont apply!
Looks like the webcam on the weather page has a nice crisp image today for anyone thats curious to have a peak at how things look from the North Hill and get an idea how many vehicles are out and about on 18th. Guessing slippery but to my eye right now looks like it's been well cleared and quite a few vehicles on their morning commute: https://ebrandon.ca/weather_camimage.aspx
If you have a pic from your neighbourhood dont be shy to post!
Reminder that the city snow clearing map is live at http://gis.brandon.ca/snowclearing/ if curious where they're at, what areas are in progress, etc.
Now for round 2 today. Might say we're fortunate to have this nice gap in between for there to be some cleanup and maybe limit some of the effects we would've seen if that extra 10-15cm they're calling for had already fallen overnight. For today, these are the new accumulation probabilities Accuweather is giving:
Above 15cm: 17%
10-15cm: 30%
5-10cm: 33%
2-5cm: 14%
< 2cm: 6%
Pasting text from Prairie Arctic Storm Prediction Centre's 7am update, which describes in pretty good detail how they see round 2 shaping up later today:
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EASTERN PRAIRIES...HEAVY SNOW OVER THE RED RIVER VALLEY WILL BEGIN TO COLLAPSE THIS MORNING AS THE DRY AIR FROM THE RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE OVER ONTARIO BEGINS PUSHING WESTWARDS AS THE ENTIRE FLOW BACKS IN RESPONSE TO THE COLORADO LOW LIFTING NORTHWARDS. THIS WILL RESULT IN THE SNOW EDGE SLOWLY SHIFTING WESTWARDS THROUGH THE DAY. A NEW BATCH OF SNOW WILL BLOSSOM AND SPREAD UP THE INVERTED TROUGH THROUGH THE DAY, BACK ACROSS SOUTHWESTERN MANITOBA AND SOUTHEASTERN SASKATCHEWAN, THEN NORTHWARDS ALONG THEIR BORDER. BY THE END OF THE DAY, ANOTHER 10-15 CM WILL FALL ALONG THE SK/MB BORDER WITH AMOUNTS DIMINISHING INTO THE 5-10 CM RANGE ON EITHER SIDE. THE RED RIVER VALLEY WILL BE VERY TRICKY, WITH TOTAL AMOUNTS DEPENDING SIGNIFICANTLY ON HOW QUICKLY THE SNOW SHIFTS WESTWARDS. GENERALLY SPEAKING, IT SEEMS MOST LIKELY THAT THE SOUTHWEST RED RIVER VALLEY SEES 5 TO 10 CM OF
ADDITIONAL SNOWFALL, WHILE THE NORTH-EASTERN RED RIVER VALLEY SEES
ANOTHER 2 CM OR SO.
IN THE CENTRAL PRAIRIES, SNOW WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH NORTHWARDS WITH 10 TO 20 CM EXPECTED IN THE PAS, FLIN FLON, LA RONGE, PELICAN NARROWS AND SOUTHEND REGIONS.
THE SNOW WILL BEGIN TO TAPER OFF ON MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY, WEAKENING AS IT COLLAPSES TOWARDS THE INVERTED TROUGH ALIGNED ALONG THE SASKATCHEWAN/MANITOBA BORDER.
LASTLY, WHEREVER IN SK/MB WHERE SNOW IS NOT FALLING, AMPLE LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE, CAPPING INVERSION, AND STRONG SYNOPTIC LIFT WILL PRODUCE WIDESPREAD STRATUS WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR FREEZING DRIZZLE AND FOG PATCHES.
http://kamala.cod.edu/Canada/latest.focn45.CWWG.html
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