April 2019 Forecasts and Discussions

[Canada Goose]

Looks like we will end April with nearly 200mm of rain at the North Coquitlam station. Hope to see a nice dry stretch with several 20C+ days soon.

Yep!

192.5mm there and 183mm here.

[Monty]

Anyone see the snowstorm in Calgary no wonder the flames got doused so easily.

There was a blizzard warning around Lethbridge. Moderate snow and winds gusting to 90kmh early this morning

[AbbyJr]

There was a blizzard warning around Lethbridge. Moderate snow and winds gusting to 90kmh early this morning

Weather summary
for Alberta
issued by Environment Canada
at 4:13 p.m. MDT Sunday 28 April 2019.

Discussion.

A strong low pressure system brought heavy snow and strong winds to
much of central and southern Alberta Saturday into Sunday morning.
Snowfall, winter storm, and blizzard warnings were issued in advance
of the early spring Alberta low. This vigorous system also produced
a few short lived severe thunderstorms in the southeast corner of
Alberta Saturday afternoon, before blizzard conditions descended on
the area Saturday evening and overnight.

Reduced visibilities and strong winds combined to produce poor
driving conditions on highways in the southeast corner of the
province overnight Saturday into Sunday morning. Sections of Highway
1 east of Calgary were closed, as well as others.

The following is a summary of weather event information received by
Environment and Climate Change Canada as of 16:00 MST Sunday, April
28:

1. Summary of snowfall in centimetres:

Cochrane: 32
Carrot Creek: 30
Rimbey: 30
Sylvan Lake: 30
Bragg Creek: 30
Winfield: 25
Crossfield: 23
Sundre: 23
Edson area: 20-30
Airdrie: 13-20
Calgary: 10-20
Kananaskis Village: 20
Nordegg: 18
Olds: 18
Red Deer: 17
Bergen: 15
Edmonton: 5-14
Innisfail: 13
Rocky Mountain House area: 13
Brooks: 12
Whitecourt: 12

2. Summary of peak winds in kilometres per hour:

Reports from observing sites:
Brocket: 107
Travers: 106
Iron Springs: 102
Barons: 98
Fort Macleod: 98
Bull Springs: 96
Champion: 96
Grassy Lakes: 96
Hussar: 96
Milk River: 96
Ralston: 96
Sheerness: 96
Stavely: 96
Bassano: 94
Enchant: 94
Social Plains: 93
Wrentham: 93
Pakowki Lake: 91
Ardenville: 89
Carway: 89
Mossleigh: 89
Onefour: 89
Pinhorn: 89
Lethbridge: 87
Calgary International Airport: 82
Medicine Hat Airport: 82

Reports from highway sites:
Highway 3 east of Range Road 272 near Fort Macleod: 103
Highway 3 west of Barnwell: 102
Highway 2 south of Jct. 519 near Granum: 102
Highway 22 south of Twp Road 91A north of Lundbreck: 100
Highway 1 west of Alderson Gas Plant Road near Suffield: 91

Please note that this summary may contain preliminary or unofficial
information and does not constitute a complete or final report.

End/PASPC

[Typeing3]

Crazy. Though this is nothing new for Alberta; that September snowstorm Calgary had a few years ago is still fresh in my mind.

[Roberts Creeker]

Had ice on a shallow bucket and frost at 9am this morning! A few of my potato tops are looking unhappy. Unusual for the end of April, isn't it?

[Roberts Creeker]

There was a blizzard warning around Lethbridge. Moderate snow and winds gusting to 90kmh early this morning

Funny how snow bring the board alive...even if it's not local.

[tyweather]

My brother inlaw was camping at Cultus Lake on Saturday. They had a tarp collapse due to snow accumulation of 3 cm. The scouts were not prepared for that.

[stuffradio]

12Z GFS appears to have quite the dry stretch between now and the middle of May.

[PortKells]

12Z GFS appears to have quite the dry stretch between now and the middle of May.

You knew that was coming. Currently it seems were getting stuck in wer/dry patterns for 2 to 3 weeks. Hopefully that's not the end of significant rainfall before the summer.

[SouthSardiswx]

Had ice on a shallow bucket and frost at 9am this morning! A few of my potato tops are looking unhappy. Unusual for the end of April, isn't it?

I was mentioning just last week about frost this late I guess I got my answer my low this morning was 2c just late last week I got down to 2c also with frost on some roof tops.

[SouthSardiswx]

Funny how snow bring the board alive...even if it's not local.

Have you looked at the Calgary forecast for this week it's very winter like all week, not much warm up with more snow chances.

[Hawk]

Hey buttees wow what a weekend at the cabin. Snow STARTED Sat morning around 6 am to 830. Temps dropped to -1c by 8:30am. Got about 4 to 5 cm of snow. It then continued on as convective flurries on Saturday high around 6c..then again on Sunday..and surprisingly again today. Sunday and today it was snowing out when temps were reading between 8 and 10c during mid day. Today was snow all the way to Cedar #2 Creek on the Hope Princeton and still very wet flakes at Hope Slide at 8c around 4pm. Talk about a troff..dammmm and super low DPs. Geezus. This troff was super impressive. Troffs are my fave

[Mattman]

We're back to our March '19 pattern: mild, dry & benign. Such a pattern produces the sound of crickets on the weather forum.

[Monty]

April ended up warmer and drier than average at Shawnigan Lake. Temps were close to 1C above normal and precip was 11mm below average

[Canada Goose]

By the way, April 2019 was the 17th rainiest since 1937 in YVR.