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Hello All,
I agree with most comments with respect to 'worst winter in NS'. Someone
in Yarmouth might say "we had winter this year ?" whereas someone in
Kentville would be worn down by the relentless sequence of snow piled on
snow, high winds with cold for nearly 7 weeks and counting. I suspect many
animals and perhaps plants will take a hit this year. Some ants will
survive.
Weather statistics are almost meaningless, with respect to a given year
relative to average experience, unless restricted to a limited area and a
carefully defied set of limits. For example, a year of average precipitation
in Kings County tells nothing about growing conditions in that year because
two crucial growing months could have been without rain; not likely but not
impossible.
YT, Dave Webster, Kentville
-- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Lowe" <mythos25@live.com>
To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 5:09 PM
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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