TORONTO - One of Canada's leading weather watchers has bad news for anyone hoping to avoid the deep freeze of last winter -- you're probably out of luck.
The Weather Network's winter outlook for Canada is calling for conditions that prevailed a year ago to be more or less repeated across the country.
Chief Meteorologist Chris Scott is forecasting colder than average temperatures from eastern Saskatchewan through to New Brunswick.
He says the rest of Saskatchewan, Alberta and the other Atlantic provinces should brace for wildly swinging temperatures that average out to near seasonal norms.
The 2013 winter weather pattern is expected to repeat in British Columbia and the Territories, which means those regions can expect warmer than normal conditions for the next few months.
Scott says these general trends will take hold starting in January and he expects December will be a time of more erratic temperature swings across the country.
