After a cold snowy week across southern Alberta, we get a chinook this week.  

Yes, it will be windy in all the usual places, especially between Lethbridge and Crowsnest Pass,  and it will be warmer. 

There may be occasions this week, particularly Wednesday and maybe Thursday, that the temperature will climb close to ten degrees, but overall this should be an event with single digit highs in most areas for most days of this week.   It won’t be  quite warm enough, perhaps, to get rid of all the beneficial snow now on the ground.   How much snow disappears will depend on how much sunshine we get with the chinook wind.  A cloudy day with an air temperature of +4 isn't going to make the snow go away, because the snow’s temperature is still zero or below.   But, add some sunshine, and it’s a different story. 

The wind warms the air, but it's the sun that warms the snow, and makes it melt or evaporate.

Read the full forecast at Rural Roots Canada.com.