When North Bayites woke up on Sunday morning they realized the potential 20 to 30 centimetres of snow that was expected, did not arrive.
The forecast anticipated that snow would begin Saturday night, and continue throughout the night. The snowfall warning turned into a typical November 5 to 10 cm snowfall for the city depending on where you live.
Dr. Doug Gilham, the Weather Network Forecast Centre Manager, says a slight storm shift was to blame.
“Due to a slight shift in the track of the storm, the heaviest snow fell just south of North Bay,” said Gilham to BayToday.ca
“It is typical for precipitation amounts to vary considerably across the region with any storm, but these differences are far more noticeable when the precipitation falls as snow and we have to shovel whatever falls. The expected snow totals did fall in many nearby places, but in this case North Bay was spared the highest impact of the storm.”
The was the case south of North Bay in places like South River where snowfall was close to 20 cm.
Power outages were reported by Hydro One as hydro lines came down due to the heavy, wet snow.
