KAMLOOPS — Strong wind gusts early Friday (Nov. 27) toppled a tall tree onto a home in Aberdeen.
No one was injured when the tree came down atop 919 Heatherton Court in the Gloaming Ridge subdivision.
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Those who spend time in Southern Alberta during the winter will recognize the weather pattern being felt in the Kamloops area.
Environment Canada’s Doug Lundquist calls it a “classic Chinook,” with warm temperatures and very heavy winds.
“There’s a system on the central coast that is bringing in sub-tropical air all the way down from the vicinity of Hawaii. It’s going to move more north over the next 24 hours,” Lundquist told CFJC Today. “As it does that, we can continue to expect Chinook-y winds here through the rest of [Friday] afternoon in that 70-to-80-kilometre-per-hour range in the gusts.”
Lundquist says the wind will calm this weekend and temperatures will return to more seasonal norms, just a few degrees above zero.
“There is another, more organized storm for Sunday into Monday and we could get other events of this wind over the next little bit,” said Lundquist. “But next week, the ridge is going to settle in over us so much stronger that we’ll probably get valley cloud, cooler temperature in the valley and that situation when it’s much sunnier and warmer over the high terrain and in the ski hills it will be much nicer.”
Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds
