Appreciate this beautiful day, smug Vancouver – our neighbours are getting snow

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VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – It’s a beautiful, sunny fall day in Vancouver, but the first blast of winter is expected to hit our neighbours in Alberta this weekend.

Calgary and the surrounding areas are under a special weather statement, with the snow expected to start Friday afternoon.

NEWS 1130’s Mike Lloyd spoke with Kenny Mason at 660 NEWS, our sister station in Calgary, just to rub it in. Mason says an early snowfall in his neck of the woods isn’t that unusual.

“This is not really a shock for us, this is just how we welcome fall. It’s about up to 50 cm in the mountains and near the southern U.S. border,” he says. “For Calgary itself, we should get up to around 5 cm of snow by Sunday but it’s not going to be as much of a dumping, we think, at least so far.”

Winter storm warnings are in effect for Okotoks, Medicine Hat, Cardston, and the Crowsnest Pass with up to 30 to 50 cm possible. There’s also snow expected in B.C.’s southern interior.

Mason claims it’s better than the 15 straight days of rain that we just had.

“Here’s the thing about the rain – I don’t mind the rain when it comes and it’s like one day of rainy weather. It’s just that three weeks of ‘Oh, it’s going to rain again today, that’s fun. It’s going to be soggy everywhere today – that’s fun.’ And it’s like that for months there.”

Mason briefly lived in Vancouver, but still says he prefers snow over rain.

“At least here, we’ll have some clear weather, some sunshine. I was born in Whitehorse, grew up in Northern Alberta – Vancouver was a nice little vacation for me for a couple of years. It never got below minus 10.”

Touche. But at least our pumpkin spice lattes aren’t freezing solid.

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