While it’s too early to tell if we’ll have a white Christmas, there’s a chance that Vancouver will have a white December 15 or 16, thanks to some snow flurries in the forecast.
According to Environment and Climate Change Canada’s (ECCC) seven-day forecast, there’s a chance of rain showers, flurries, or periods of rain and snow for those two days.
Although temperatures don’t currently seem cold enough to have a significant impact, Vancouver is a place where you never know.
The next seven days start with a dash of sunshine and some cloud cover, with lows of 2°C and highs of 8°C. After that, we have a few days of rain before the potential for snow on Sunday night and Monday.
ECCC
The coldest it will be over the next seven days is Sunday night when temperatures will be near freezing.
We’ve chatted with ECCC a few times over the past couple of months, and we’ve heard different things about what winter will look like as the forecast evolves. In our most recent conversation with ECCC, we learned that winter weather could be a mixed bag, with warmer-than-seasonal weather and colder-than-seasonal weather.
We spoke with Armel Castellan, ECCC’s warning preparedness meteorologist. He knows a thing or two about forecasts and weather patterns.
Castellan told us that this winter, signals call for some periods of warmer weather and more typical winter weather, including snow and colder temperatures. Also, it’s important to note that when ECCC refers to winter, it means meteorological winter, which begins on December 1.
“There is a relatively high probability of seeing warmer than normal temperatures across, I would say, Western Canada,” Castellan said. He added that there’s a strong indicator that this would be the case for the first and maybe second week of December. There are more question marks for the third week of December and beyond.”
How do you feel about snow in the forecast for Vancouver? Are you excited or feeling the frosty dread of winter?