New West gets a winter blast to see out February

JulieMacLellan jmaclellan@newwestrecord ca

Just as February turned to March, Mother Nature decided to turn on the winter weather one more time.

NewWestminster and the rest of the Lower Mainland saw a major blast of winter for the final weekend in February, as a heavy snowfall Saturday night left more than 20 centimetres of snow on the ground in NewWestminster

Much of it melted during a sunny Sunday, but winter wasn’t about to give up that easily

Environment Canada issued a special weather statement warning of impending snow on Monday night andTuesday morning and, sure enough, the promised flurries arrived as a small-scale lowpressure system moved across the Lower Mainland.

In fact,Tuesday’s snow saw somewhat more than “flurries,” as snow fell steadily well into the afternoon

As to what the rest of the week has in store?

Well, at press time, Environment Canada had issued yet another special weather statement warning of snow overnightWednesday, so you may well have woken up to five more centimetres of snow today (Thursday)

At press deadline, the Weather Network was calling for showers today and tomorrow (Friday, March 3), with mixed precipitation again on Saturday But, as we’ve already seen, anything can happen in March so be