Edmonton weather: Cool, windy and mixed precipitation [Video]

Rain moved into the Edmonton area overnight and we’ll continue to see some precipitation through the morning hours.

Most of the modelling indicates a flip from rain to snow at some point in the morning, but there’s some uncertainty with when/if that’ll happen.

It’s the temperature about 1500 metres above the ground that plays a key role in determining precip type, not the surface temperature. Unfortunately, we just don’t have a lot of timely info on the temperature at that height.

So, this is one of those spring-time situations where it could go a couple different ways. It could stay all rain, it could become a mixture of rain & snow, or it could just flip over fully to snow.

I think it’ll PROBABLY be a rain/snow mix or wet snow through the morning and then taper off midday. We also can’t rule out a bit of snow accumulation in …