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Health Astonishing winter-like jet stream threatens two provinces with July SNOW Thursday, July 18th 2019, 10:36 am - This is a jet stream for the record books and its consequences are...snowy!

There's no benchmark for a jet stream this strong roaring across western Canada in the middle of July. With such a cold upper trough and racing upper level winds in the middle of July, this could bring some snowy consequences to parts of western Canada to round out this week.

If you were to show any meteorologist across the country the satellite imagery above, they'd guess the season was fall or winter. In fact, if this jet stream would to occur during the fall or winter months, it's entirely possible it could create a severe wind storm for the Pacific Northwest.

This is quite the active storm track with ample moisture pushing into British Columbia and reminiscent of a fall pattern – but no, it's now, the heart of July.

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Weather Balloons on Thursday will sample air moving at over 200 km/h across southern British Columbia and Washington State. If you don't believe it, watch the video below to see just how far of an outlier that is: