I took this photo yesterday, January 27th, at Koeneman Park. Koeneman Park is located just outside of McBride, which is nestled in the Canadian Rockies, in the Interior of British Columbia. Where is the snow? This is how things should look in the middle of March, not in January. There should be at least a foot (30cm) of snow on the ground this time of year.
I would be happy to get rain, but we don’t get that either. Precipitation is constantly in the weather forecast, but we just get wind instead. The temperatures have been extremely warm for this time of year. Normally the daytime highs should be -4°C (24°F) but we have been getting days of +7°C (44°F). Night time temperatures are normally -14°C (7°F), but overnight we have been getting +5°C (41°F).
I am becoming fearful of summer. We are still in a Class 5 Drought from last year and without our normal snow levels, things will become worse this summer, with the forest fire danger even more extreme.
Our end of the Robson Valley is classified as an Interior Temperate Rain Forest. We are certainly not living up to that classification.
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