Weather pattern clues into mid-March

The overall pattern from Wednesday through early next week looks abnormally dry from the southern Canadian Prairies to southern Quebec and New Brunswick with well below-normal precipitation.

The positive phase of the Arctic Oscillation and North Atlantic Oscillation is likely to dominate over the next few weeks. While there will still be several shots of cold air into the Prairies and eastern Canada into mid-March, the lack of upstream blocking will once again mean that these periods of cold weather will be brief and not lock in.

A drier pattern is also likely to dominate across southern BC into the United States' West Coast into early March.

There will also be opportunities for significant snowfall over parts of Atlantic Canada over the next few weeks based on the projected pattern.