Very cold one day, warm the next.

What a crazy week for weather! I always seem to be writing or talking about the weather but it does dominate our thoughts here in Labrador City.  I looked out the window on Wednesday morning and thought "what a beautiful day", later that morning I heard on the radio that it was -38 degrees (no windchill).  No good looking out the window to decide what to wear.

On Friday, we all wore sweaters (without jackets) as the weather peaked at -8 degrees C and it snowed for most of the day. It hasn't snowed for ages as it has been too cold.  Predictions were for a warm weekend, 25 cm of snow and icy rain (whatever that is).  Today was 0 degrees C, that is a massive temperature variation over three days and I don't think we have ever experienced this variation in Australia.  It was noticeably warmer but it has been snowing solidly all day, there is a snowfall warning for Lab City overnight with 15cm of snow expected. 

We went for a walk this afternoon and felt the icy snow, it's like wet snow fall, when it lands it has the consistency of a slushie drink.  The warmer temperatures are causing lots of snow to melt so it's extra messy and dangerous on the roads.  The sand truck is laying down sand to make it less slippery and there are a lot of loaders and graders moving around on the streets cleaning up the fresh and melting snow.  The rain has also made it overcast, colder days are much sunnier.  Tomorrow's forecast is for a maximum of -13degC with lots more snow, not sure if it will be sunny or not.

Melting snow and sand on Avalon Drive