While a lot of my friends and family are suffering under unusually frigid weather where they live in more southern climes, the Robson Valley residents are shaking their heads wondering what happened to winter. The 8 inches of snow we had on the ground, which suggested that we were finally going to get a normal winter, has melted away after we received a spell of above freezing temperatures and rain, making it really feel as is Spring had arrived.
Today it is forecast that our daytime temperature will be 11°C (52°F). Back in my hometown in Southern Indiana, today’s temperature is -2°C (28°F), and they have a foot (30cm) of snow on the ground. Things sure seem to be mixed up and unreliable these days.
On the positive side, the BC’s snow pillow equipment that is up in the mountain alpine and measures the amount of snow and precipitation, is showing that things up there have finally returned to normal after a record breaking low accumulation last winter, which was below historic normal readings. That is a positive development.
Time will only tell how the rest of our winter season will pan out. I don’t really mind the unusually mild temperatures, but would certainly prefer snow to rain.
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