The month we just shivered through was the coldest February on record in Vancouver.
Global News meteorologist Yvonne Schalle says it clearly was a record-setter.
“The mean temperature was only 0.4 C, the average for February is 4.9 C. We surpassed the old record of 0.8 C that was set back in 1989, Schalle said.
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“Also to note for the month of February — the snowfall. We typically only see two days and we had 10 days of snow. We had 31 centimetres out at the airport, above the average of 6.3 cm.”
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As for the old record, she says we did not surpass it.
“Sixty-one centimetres fell in the month of February 1949, but for the month of February that we just had, it will definitely be in the top 10 snowiest.”
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