Dry, warm March caps lengthy stretch of extreme weather
NANAIMO — Six weeks of wild weather saw a bitterly cold February transition into one of the driest months of March ever.
Environment Canada meteorologist Armel Castellan said just 20 mm of precipitation fell at Nanaimo Airport in March, way off the usual 113 mm.
“We didn’t get much precipitation at all, some locations were below 10 per cent (of normal). Nanaimo was the sixth driest on record,” Castellan said.
A dry and warm March locally featured several daily temperature records and followed the sixth coldest February.