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Index of Subjects Here are a few stats (temp data from Kentville, snowfall / total precip data from Greenwood; 30-y average 1981-2010): Month: average mean temp (30-y avg), snowfall (30-y avg) [total precip (30-y avg)] Oct 2014: 11.4 (9.4), - (-) [total precip 141 mm (89 mm)] Nov 2014: 3.5 (4.1), - (-) [total precip 208 mm (109 mm)] Dec 2014: 0.8 (-2.3), 10 cm (63 cm) [total precip 164 mm (113 mm)] Jan 2015: -6.5 (-5.6), 127 cm (79 cm) [total precip 157 mm (116 mm)] Feb 2015: -10.1 (-4.9), 121 cm (53 cm) [total precip 125 mm (85 mm)] All that precipitation in November and most in December was rain. February was very much colder than average, and March is certainly looking that way, too (so far [15 days] average mean temp is -5.4, and the 30-y average for March is -1.0). Doug Linzey PS: If you're interested in having this sort of information regularly, all it takes is a membership in the Blomidon Naturalists Society. On 18-Mar-15 5:21 PM, Hebda, Andrew J wrote: > Hi Keith > > I ran into a similar problem when trying to get some snowfall data for the province. Mean data seemed to be available, but getting synoptic data even for the last several months for a couple of places was a challenge.. To boot, a number of "un-official" sources provided contradictory information. > > Did manage to extract that, with the exception of the South of the province, we seem to have about 30-40% more snow than "average" this year, even with Oct, Nov and Dec being warm > > Andrew > ________________________________________ > From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] on behalf of Keith Lowe [mythos25@live.com] > Sent: March-18-15 5:09 PM > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Subject: RE: [NatureNS] Worst winter ever in Nova Scotia? > > For NS it probably wouldn't be the worst winter by any statistical criterial > because November and December were mild without any snow. I wish there was a > more comprehensive site for weather statistics but as far as I'm aware of > there is not a great source of information anywhere. The Weather Network has > some stats for each community--click Forecasts & Reports/Long > Term/Statistics. > > The last I heard Boston and Saint John are the only places in the NE to > break their all-time snow records so far this winter but Charlottetown was > getting close too. > > But I don't remember a January - March stretch this bad in Halifax before. > Almost every day has been below normal, we're not getting any thawing > cycles, and we're having an unusually high number of severe wind chill days > and I don't even want to mention the word snow (though I will say that > Halifax has more than doubled its March average in the last 3 days). > > Also it is not quite NS wide, as often the case the SW tip of NS is getting > off quite easy compared to the rest of the province. I was looking at the > NovaScotiaWebCam for Cape Forchu yesterday and it was showing mostly bare > ground. They got some today but far less than us. > > Keith Lowe > > -----Original Message----- > From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] > On Behalf Of Christopher > Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 12:17 PM > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Subject: [NatureNS] Worst winter ever in Nova Scotia? > > It's an intriguing question isn't it? When was the worst winter ever in NS? > Total precipitation, days of snow, temperatures below zero C? > > We all have our ideas of what a bad winter is. Does anyone know how to find > out "statistically" if this is a bad winter? (in comparison to others on > record) > > Chris Peters > > >
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