If you have any outdoor activities or chores around the yard you need to get done, better do it before the weekend.
It’s going to get cold, Prince George.
Seriously, though, you didn’t think we were going to escape winter without at least one bone-chilling blast?
It’s coming.
By Friday night, thermometers in the city will plunge to -21 C and for the first time since the cold season began the overnight low will dip below -30 C.
Saturday’s predicted high will only reach -16 C and the low will get to -30 C. On Sunday you can expect a high of -19 C and a low of -31.
There’s also 40 per cent chance of flurries on Saturday and a 30 per cent chance on Friday.
Until then, we can expect over the next three days temperatures slightly above the normal -4C high/-12 C low for this time of year and snow is in the forecast, which should help get rid of the fine particulate matter that prompted an air quality advisory for Prince George, issued by Environment Canada on Monday.
We’ve already reached our high of -2 C for today and the low tonight will hit -3 C. The wind is expected to pick up overnight and that, coupled with 76 per cent humidity, will make it feel colder than it really is.
A moist system from the south will mix with cooler and that will dump between two and four centimetres of snow on PG on Wednesday, with more periods of snow continuing for Thursday and Friday.
Highs will range -1 C to 1 C and the lows will be -3 C Wednesday and Thursday.
This has been an exceptionally mild winter.
At Prince George Airport it got below -20 C on only two days – Jan. 1 (-22.8 C) and Jan. 3 (-26.8 C) and only two other days was it colder than -18 C (Jan. 3, -18.6 C) and Jan. 19 (-18.3 C).
There were no days in December colder than -14 C (Dec. 15 was the coldest at -13.5 C) and just cold low in November (Nov. 25, -20.4 C).
