Snow dump

With the spring season already sprung, some residents say they wished Thunder Bay’s snowfall would just go away.

The city received a fair amount of snow that covered cars, driveways, roads and lawns on Saturday. Environment Canada issued a snowfall warning with two centimetres expected to cover the city by the evening.

Traditionally, Thunder Bay receives a snowfall right around the end of March and beginning of April. Last year’s milder weather was abnormal but an April snowfall is considered far more common.

Some residents that spoke with Tbnewswatch.com on Saturday said they wished the fluffy white stuff would just go away.

Nicos and Jenni Pfeiffer, from Marathon, Ont., came to Thunder Bay for weekend visit. The couple said they weren’t happy to have to bundle up in winter clothes.

"This is not great, I’m not impressed," Nicos in a toque and winter jacket. "We came for a nice spring weekend, buy a barbecue, do some shopping and then we get snow."

Lita Boudreau said she was fed up with the snow and wouldn’t even bother to shovel her driveway when she got back home. Besides brushing off her car, she didn’t let the snow bother her that much. She just wished that it would go away.

"I not shovelling it any more, I’m giving it up," Boudreau said. "I just came back from southern Ontario and it was so beautiful and then I come here. It has got to end."

Milosz Skowronski disagreed with Boudreau and the Pfeiffer and said he enjoyed the new fallen snow. Despite a warmer coat, he wore short sleeve shirts and knew that this amount of snow wouldn’t stick around long anyway, he said.

The forecast from Environment Canada for Sunday is expected to be cloudy with sunny periods, a 40 per cent chance of flurries with a wind northwest at 30 km/h and a of high –1 Celsius.