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Cold snap for southern Alberta to likely last for the rest of December

LETHBRIDGE, AB – Keep those toques and parkas handy. It’s going to get cold and more than likely stay that way right through Christmas.

Arctic air is forecast to flood across the prairies this week and that’s likely going to last for a while.

Environment Canada’s Kyle Fougere says in fact, temperatures are expected to get progressively colder and colder across southern Alberta.

“For the most part, it looks like once this arctic air settles across the province, it tends to stick around,” says Fougere. “So for the rest of the month there isn’t really a strong signal for warmth coming back in. I think that arctic air is something that people are going to have to get used to for the rest of this month.”

The long range forecast is showing daytime highs next week, the week leading up to Christmas to be in the mid-minus teens with some snow and by Christmas Day, the high could drop to -20°C.

That would make it one of the coldest Christmas Days in Lethbridge in a several years.

Although still a week and a half away, there’s also a good chance we will have snow on the ground before December 25th. We’ve only had four White Christmases here in southern Alberta over the last ten years.

Fougere says for the rest of this week it’ll be about 10 or 12 degrees below normal for this time of year and next week could be colder yet. There is also on again, off again flurries expected leading up to Christmas.

Patrick Siedlecki
Patrick Siedlecki
Pat has been a mainstay in the CJOC News department from the time the station launched in 2007. He's been in the position of News Director since then and has been anchoring daily news casts as well as reporting and working behind the scenes. Community is important to him and keeping CJOC listeners and readers informed about what's happening across southern Alberta and beyond. Pat has been in radio broadcasting for the past 24 years, starting in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in 1997 and then moving up island to Nanaimo for another few years before heading to Lethbridge in 2007. Pat grew up in the small Saskatchewan farming town of Foam Lake. After high school, he went to Western Academy Broadcasting College (WABC) in Saskatoon prior to moving to the island. Pat also spent several years broadcasting hockey in the BCHL as well as seven years as the radio voice of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the WHL. Pat has been working at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Lethbridge as a Certified Life Celebrant and Funeral Assistant since 2016. News and sports have always been Pat's passion from the time he was a teenager and he's always been grateful to have had the opportunity to make that part of what's been a fun and long radio career!
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