Heavy snow, rain highlights of otherwise average Nanaimo winter
NANAIMO — It will go down as an average winter statistically, but there were pockets of extreme conditions that made a big impact on day-to-day life in Nanaimo.
Environment Canada Meteorologist Armel Castellan told NanaimoNewsNOW numbers don’t jump off the page when analyzing Nanaimo’s winter, but said each month had extreme weather.
“Even though the averages were hit both for temperatures and precipitation, you still have those events that happened throughout December, January and February.”
He said 60 cm of snow fell during the past three months, a bit above the 50 cm that usually hits the Harbour City. The average temperature was down half a degree to 3.0 C, while rainfall dipped a bit below average to 41 cm.