Update 4:35 a.m. Saturday
Current details:
The above alert for your area has ended.
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Miss making a snowman with the kids this winter?
You haven't lost your chance!
Environment Canada has issued a Special weather statement for:
- North Bay - West Nipissing
- New Liskeard - Temagami - Kirkland Lake
Rain is expected to begin this afternoon and then change to snow this evening as temperatures drop below the freezing mark.
Latest indications suggest local snowfall amounts could exceed 10 cm before the snow tapers off late Saturday morning.
There is also the risk of freezing rain late this evening and overnight. Local snowfall amounts of 5 to 10 cm are possible. It will also be windy, north 20 km/h gusting to 40 this evening. The low will hit minus 3.
That's a lot of snow for this time of year, but we won't know if it's a record. Environment Canada stopped keeping records in North Bay five years ago
When the airport site was taken over by NavCanada back in 2013, they discontinued the snowfall observations.
“Environment Canada attempted to find an observer to record snowfall information but was unsuccessful in doing so due to lack of interest and/or poor siting location of where the observer would measure the snow (i.e. proposed sites were not representative of the surrounding area),” stated Geoff Coulson, Warning Preparedness Meteorologist, Meteorological Service of Canada, in an email to BayToday.ca.
See: Want daily snowfall records for North Bay? You won't find any after 2013