All Cariboo residents can do is “dream” about a white Christmas.
Warning Preparedness Meteorologist for Environment Canada Armel Castellan said it’s not looking super promising as a big upper trough over the Gulf of Alaska is bringing with it a South Westerly flow giving the region warmer temperatures.
“We continue to see these temperatures that are above zero even overnight and up to mid single digits which at this time of year the normal high is minus 4 so we’re talking 10 degrees above seasonal at this point of the season.”
Castellan said it’s going to be fairly dry particularly Saturday onward.
“As we get into the early part of next week the temperatures come down a little bit hovering around zero in the middle of the day but we just don’t have a lot of moisture making it’s way through the region. So to get a lot of snow between now and then it’s extremely unlikely.”
Castellan noted the definition of a white Christmas at Environment Canada is that there are 2 centimetres on the ground on Christmas Day.
“Could the 14 centimetres that fell earlier this week survive until Christmas? Maybe if it’s not too windy or too warm. There may still be a couple of centimetres left on some of the ground cover.”
Something going on in the Cariboo you think people should know about?
Send us a news tip by emailing [email protected].
