Heavy, wet snow forecast for much of Alberta starting Wednesday night

CBC News

· Posted: Mar 25, 2025 4:51 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

After the balmy temperatures Albertans person enjoyed this week, Environment Canada is forecasting a return to "wintry" conditions, with snowfall beginning Wednesday nighttime successful immoderate cardinal parts of the province.

"Wintry upwind returns to Alberta this week," the upwind bureau said Tuesday. "Expect wintertime question conditions from Wednesday overnight to Friday crossed cardinal Alberta."

Environment Canada has issued a bid of peculiar upwind statements for a wide swath of the province, from Slave Lake successful the northbound to Calgary and further south, and stretching from the B.C. borderline to the Saskatchewan border.

Heavy, bedewed snowfall is expected to commencement Wednesday nighttime successful west-central areas including Grande Prairie, Whitecourt and Edson.

By Thursday morning, snowfall volition intensify crossed cardinal Alberta, including the Edmonton area, Environment Canada said.

South of Edmonton, including Red Deer and areas to the east, rainfall mixed with freezing rainfall is imaginable earlier turning to snowfall by Thursday afternoon.

Snowfall amounts of 5 to 20 centimetres are forecast by Friday greeting crossed cardinal Alberta, but up to 25 centimetres is imaginable adjacent the Rocky Mountains and successful the occidental portion of the province, adjacent Grande Prairie.

However, "confidence successful full snowfall accumulations is moderate," Environment Canada said, fixed the lukewarm temperatures to commencement the week and uncertainty astir however accelerated the snowfall volition fall.