Predicting a "Classic Canadian Winter"

You might as well get used to shoveling snow this winter.

That’s the word from Weather Network Meteorologist Brad Rousseau.

He says this area is going to have a classic Canadian winter, which means above seasonal amounts of precipitation.

“And we can attribute that to the fact that there’ll be an active storm track up through the Great Lakes Basin and across the eastern portion of the country. So there’ll be a lot of low pressure tracking up from the Central United States bringing an abundance of moisture bringing you guys a lot of snow,” he says.

He predicts mid way through the winter we will receive somewhat of a thaw.

“There’ll be a little period where we should trend warmer than normal but December and the end of the winter months should tip us back to near seasonal and could tip us even to the cooler side,”  he says.

Rousseau says the winter won’t just include snow, but also rain and freezing rain.

It’s all thanks to a La Nina pattern bringing lower than normal temperatures to South America, impacting weather patterns here.

(File photo: Oak Street in the snow)