Mother Nature can’t seem to make up her mind about what kind of weather she will give us. Because the Robson Valley is situated in the Canadian Rockies, it sits on the border between the warmer/wetter weather systems coming off of the Pacific Ocean, and the dryer/colder air blowing down onto the prairies from the Arctic. This year the border of those two systems keep nudging each other back and forth, giving us rather unpredictable weather.
For the most part, our weather has been moist and mild, with temperatures moving just above and below the freezing level. We haven’t really had any really frigid temperatures.
I was getting pretty tired of rain, and last weekend, colder temperatures moved in, dumping about 5 inches (12 cm) of snow on the ground.
“Finally,” I thought, “winter has arrived,” as I cranked up my snow blower for the first time this season, but I was premature in my thinking. Two days later after a heavy rainfall and temperatures rising to 7°C (45°F), all of our snow had disappeared. Last night we got it back.
We often hear the old saying, “If you don’t like the weather, just wait wait five minutes.” That certainly has been the situation so far this year.
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