As Mother Nature continues to be difficult to predict, the City of Prince George is once again bracing for a dump of snow.
About 15 to 20 centimetres is expected for the northern capital between today and Good Friday.
A spring snowfall is not considered ideal according to City Roads and Fleets Manager Blake Mcintosh.
“Usually by this time of the year we do get scattered flurries but amounts of what Environment Canada is predicting is not normal.”
“We can’t plow or treat the snow until we actually receive it, given the current weather conditions we would most likely treat the snow with traction, de-icing and anti-icing materials and the warmer temperatures should help.”
The weekend weather forecast isn’t providing a ton of relief when it comes to the melting side of the equation.
Daily temperatures will be between minus two and plus one degree Celsius between now and Easter Sunday with the warm-up not expected until Tuesday and Wednesday.
“Ideally, we would like temperatures above zero overnight, which would increase the melt it looks like the last couple of weeks and the foreseeable future temperatures will still be below zero overnight, which won’t expedite the month.”
The city received 87 centimeters of snow during February with about 67 of it falling between the 2nd and the 9th – the highest amount since 1979.
Roughly 500 dump trucks of snow per day were removed from the streets in order for proper clearing.
In total, over 13-thousand truckloads of snow were hauled to the city snow disposal facilities last month – that is enough snow to fill the CN Centre four times.
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