‘Winter’s not over yet:’ marmots & meteorologists agree on prolonged Nanaimo winter

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A light snowfall in Nanaimo on Wednesday was enough of a reminder the warmer temperatures are still a few months away.

Sekhon added we will likely see a brief warm stretch through the middle of February.

“From about the 10th to 17th of February, expecting above average temperatures, generally a bit of a warmer trend for the next little while.”

The trend comes after a January which told the tale of two halves.

A record snowfall on Jan. 5 of 49.2 centimetres doubled the old mark for that day and wrapped a stretch of two weeks of snowfall which paralyzed parts of the city, delayed garbage collection and snarled travel.

Sekhon said overall, January was slightly cooler and slightly drier than historical averages.

The monitoring station at Nanaimo airport recorded 78 per cent of normal precipitation with 147 millimetres falling.

It was the temperature fluctuations which stood out however. Thirteen degrees was the daytime high on Jan. 20, while an overnight low of -10.5 degrees occurred on New Years Day.

“In the winter months is where you’re going to have that fluctuation in temperature…you could see some temperatures on the very cold side when you get those Arctic outbreaks and then on the warm side when we get those warm pushes of air from tropical origins.”

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