T.S. Eliot famously wrote that April is the cruellest month, but if the poet saw St. Albert's upcoming weather forecast of daytime highs below -20 degrees for six straight days, he might've made an edit.
Indeed, St. Albertans might need to break out a second pair of mittens to wear next week as starting Tuesday night, temperatures are set to stay below -20 C until the following Tuesday, when the daytime high will be a sweltering -18 C, according to the Weather Network's 14-day forecast.
January 11 and 12, next Thursday and Friday, will be the coldest of the freeze as the Weather Network is forecasting daytime highs of -27 C both days, with temperatures dropping to overnight lows as cold as -34 C.
Next week's cold weather may also come with snow, the forecast shows. Between one and three centimetres of snow are expected to fall on Tuesday, Jan. 9, with light snow also expected on Wednesday.
