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Special Weather Statement: southwest Alberta

December 19, 2019

A Special Weather Statement for SNOW has been issued for the Pincher Creek, Waterton, and Crowsnest Pass areas as well as Kananskis and Canmore.

Beginning tonight, a stream of pacific moisture will bring a sharp contrast in weather across the Rocky Mountains until Saturday morning.

Communities and highways close to the British Columbia border could see total snowfall accumulations of 10 to 20 centimetres, while the eastern slopes of the Rockies will see warm, dry, and gusty conditions.

Warming temperatures could cause some precipitation to fall as rain or wet snow, especially in valleys at lower elevations.

Holiday travel through the mountains could be difficult Friday and Saturday on routes such as highways 1, 3 and 93.

Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada.

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!