Category: Summaries
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June 2014 Summary – Set up for a dry summer – Heat Now and warm August?
Not a bad June but it was dry… and the warmest since 2009? Temperatures normal to above normal. Rainfall well below. For the month of June we were above normal in the City but only slightly above or exactly normal at the Airport. (Note: previous version had incorrectly transcribed data) Rainfall was well below normal. 28% of our normal at the Airport. Looking…
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May 2014 Summary – Warm and Dry Weather Causes Snowpack to Disappear
Pleasant May weather setting us up for Dry summer? May was above average for temperatures, and well below average for rainfall. Check out the full report below. Snowpack is gone On average, the snowpack usually disappears sometime in July. However, the BC River Forecast Centre shows the snowpack pack effectively disappeared by the end of May, 2 weeks earlier than last year…
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April 2014 Summary – April Showers plus Hot Summer and El Niño loom
April showers not quite as strong, El Niño Watch on. April was on average for temperatures, below average for rainfall. Check out the full report below. Oh, and it’s going to start raining late this morning or early afternoon. 🙂 Snowpack has peaked The BC River Forecast Centre shows the snowpack peaked in early April…
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March 2014 Summary – Spring brings rain, snow and possible El Niño
Rainfall recovers, brings snowpack to 50% normal. Warm mornings, cool afternoons Like February, March provided a little more relief from the historic drought of the fall and early winter. We received above normal rainfall and this allowed the snowpack to recover just a little bit more from its historic lows a month previous. However, compared…
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February 2014 Summary – The drought breaks, old man winter comes late
Historic drought eases but remains below normal very cold temperatures meant snow! February, which usually is our first break from the wet monsoons of November, December and January, this year acted as a bit of a saviour. After months of historic dryness, we received a normal amount of precipitation. And much of it in the…