City watches season’s first snowfall come and go

Winter may be officially six weeks away, but Jack Frost paid Thunder Bay an early call on Friday, dumping enough snow on the city to colour many of its lawns white.

Local climatologist Graham Saunders said November snow is nothing unusual, and he doesn’t expect the first dusting of the city to last long on the ground.

“It’s certainly not. We even have snow in September sometimes. This is not remarkable and nothing compared to the North Shore. I guess Manitouwadge and Hornepayne got lots there,” said Saunders, reached by phone at home.

According to some reports, up to 20 centimetres of the white stuff hit the North Shore this week. It held off long enough to allow the Remembrance Day ceremonies to proceed without a weather delay.

“This is not going to last because there’s very little of it,” Saunder said. “There’s not big accumulations and it looks like fairly mild weather over the weekend and rain, so we’re not going to shovel this.”