Edmonton Weather: New year, new weather, and lots of snow to come

Edmonton Weather: New year, new weather, and lots of snow to come

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A look at Tuesday Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.

It’s -7 C at the Edmonton Blatchford weather station with 4 km/h winds from the south, southwest and a wind chill of -9.

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Happy New Year, Edmonton! We hope you all had a lovely time celebrating the end of one solar revolution and the start of the next, though hopefully sober enough not to get the whole world spinning.

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This week’s forecast will start today with what we’ve grown accustomed to: a mix of sun and cloud and fog patches, with a high of -5 C and winds up to 15 km/h that will continue into the evening, bringing the wind chill to -15 in the evening. This will stay mostly consistent all the way up to the weekend. As of Saturday, though, we’ll finally get a really and for true snowfall, for a whole weekend! I can hardly believe it, it’s a New Years miracle!

Today’s forecast

Today: Cloudy. Becoming a mix of sun and cloud this morning. Fog patches this morning. Wind up to 15 km/h. High -5 C. Wind chill -8 this morning and -13 this afternoon.

Tonight: Partly cloudy. Becoming cloudy near midnight. Wind up to 15 km/h. Low -12 C. Wind chill -15 this evening.

Tomorrow: Cloudy. Wind up to 15 km/h. High -6 C. Wind chill near -13.

Sunrise: 8:50 a.m.

Sunset: 4:26 p.m.

Normals:

Max: -7 C

Min: -16 C

On this day (1996-2022):

Highest temperature:  8.6 C in 2019

Lowest temperature: -30.6 C in 2009

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Yesterday’s temperature

High: 1.5 C

Low: -6.8 C

Precipitation: 0.0 mm

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