A colder than average February isn’t keeping Saskatonians inside on Family Day.
“We did a bit of sledding on the weekend already and we’re trying the (Clarence Downey Speed Skating) oval out for the first time,” said Kari Froehlich, who sped around the track with her husband and three kids on Monday afternoon.
“We’ve not been here before,” explained Froelhlich, who added that they planned to skate for about an hour.
Outdoor activities don’t stop there. The family has big plans for Thursday. “We’re going to go skiing probably at Table Mountain,” she said.
And the Froelhich’s aren’t the exception. According to Barbara Crowe with Ixtapa Travel, February break usually books up by Christmas.
“Typically you wouldn’t see this week available, but it did not sell out,” Crowe said. “We still have flights that are available on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, this weekend.”
She said it’s an opportunity people may want to seize and, according to Environment Canada meteorologist John Paul Cragg, she could be right.
“We’re expecting March and April to be colder than normal,” Cragg said. “This looks like a La Nina winter and La Nina spring and with La Nina often you get colder than average springs.”
Similar to the month of February which has, thus far, averaged -20 degrees.
“It’s been about seven and a half degrees colder than average so far this February,” Cragg said.
-12 degrees is the daily average for this time of year.
“We’ve had a little bit of wind. That little bit of wind has helped to create those dangerous wind chills and those wind chills dropping off to the -40 and below mark,” Cragg said.
For the Froelhich’s, it’s all part of living in a cold winter province.
“Doesn’t seem to stop us. We still like to get out and have some fun,” Froehlich said.
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