– With files from Stan Ashbee, My Lethbridge Now
BC will not get the worst Canada has to offer this winter.
That is according to the Farmers’ Almanac winter outlook report, which predicts the province will be “chilly and wet” with “lots of snow in the mountains for skiers.”
La Nina, which refers to the periodic cooling of ocean surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific, is expected to blanket two-thirds of the country with cooler-than-normal temperatures this season.
Most of BC lands outside of the La Nina range, the Almanac predicts it will impact the country “from east of the Rockies to Ontario.”
The Prairies and Great Lakes are expected to be the coldest parts of the country this winter, hitting the sharpest lows at the end of January when “frigid Arctic air brings a sharp plunge in temperatures.”
The Farmers’ Almanac has been making weather predictions since 1818 and its founding editor had come up with some correlations between celestial events and various meteorological conditions.
“Over the years, we’ve fine-tuned our formula somewhat. We’ve changed some of it, but we still look at many of those factors and we come up with a forecast,” says Editor Sandi Duncan.
“Recently, we’ve also taken into consideration the changes in the environment, as well as when we’re putting our forecast together when we see something develop such as La Nina for this winter, we try to look at that and what it might do to the winter forecast ahead,” explains Duncan.
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