Hey Folks,

I hope you had a great weekend.
I'm still waiting for a few last numbers to trickle in from Environment Canada before I give you a rundown on the month of January. You know, average temps and snowfall etc. (Expect to see that in the next few days.) However a quick glance and it's not tough to see everyone was again ABOVE average in terms of temperatures again in January.

However, February will start with a prolonged period of Cold. In fact for Newfoundland, the next 5 days could be the longest stretch of "Cold" weather we've seen all Winter.

5 Days Below -5.
4 Days Below -20.

That looks like the forecast for the next 5 across Newfoundland. Doesn't sound like much, but we haven't seen it yet this winter. The 4 days between the 22nd and 25th of January we're the coldest yet.
Tomorrow (Tuesday) will be -10 or -11 across the Island with temperatures slowing rising to -7 or -6 on Thursday. Friday looks colder as well.

In Western Labrador, bitter Wind Chills of -45 to -50!!!! will be greeting you tonight and tomorrow and a result Wind Chill Warnings are in effect. Temperatures in Labrador will be bitter this week as well... with temperature highs staying below -20 through Thursday.

OK IT'S COLD... WHERE'S THE SNOW ALREADY?!?!?

Well Western Newfoundland, although they've been isolated, the Snow Squalls which are hitting you for the 3rd straight day, have been dropping some decent amounts of Snow.

The Deer Lake Airport has picked up 23 cm of Snow over the past 2 days and down at the Stephenville airport, 16 cm feel over the weekend. Having said that, I'm sure some of you out there haven't even seen 5 cm... it just depends where the streamers setup.

In the East, St. John's actually picked up 8 cm over the weekend in Snow Squalls and I'm sure there's a lot more which has fallen along the Burin and Southern Avalon where the Snow Squall machine has been pounding you all weekend. Your weekend totals are likely closer to what has fallen in Western Newfoundland.

But it's Snow Starved Central which continues to get ripped off for any kind of Snowfall. Again I'll have your official January totals later this week... but for sure Gander had less than 40 cm of Snow in January and more than 60 mm of Rain!

So when's our next chance... of seeing some decent Snowfall? Well, it appears a decent sized Storm heading our way will track to the East for Thursday and Friday. With the next potential system following closely behind for the weekend. However, 3 different models have 3 different ideas on how all this will shake out. The weekend systems fate will have a lot to do with where the first system goes.
-The Canadian model is hinting towards mainly a Newfoundland system for the weekend... with mostly Snow... but perhaps some Rain mixing in there for Eastern sections.
-The American GFS model is taking the System well to the Southeast and complete miss.
-The European is all over the map with this one right now.

I'll keep you up to date.

Ryan