Regions of Canada are either bracing for floods or already experiencing flooding as warm weather melts the accumulated winter snow. The Weather Network forecast “warmer-than-normal” temperatures for the week of April 10.
Tyler Hamilton, a meteorologist, said on April 8 that almost every region in Canada was likely to see the thermometer rise due to a ridge of high pressure, except in Atlantic Canada, where a weather system east of Newfoundland is predicted to lower temperatures.
Hamilton said Alberta and Saskatchewan will see temperatures close to 20 degrees, but Manitoba will have stubborn low clouds and a widespread snowpack suppressing temperatures.
Flooded farms along the Trans-Canada Highway in Abbotsford, B.C., on Nov. 22, 2021. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press)
British Columbia
In British Columbia, advisories of high streamflow were issued by B.C.’s River Forecast Centre on April 10, as heavy rain from a Pacific frontal system blanketed the southern interior. Similkameen and Okanagan regions were added to existing warnings affecting Vancouver Island, the Sunshine Coast, Metro Vancouver, and parts of the Fraser Valley….