Our endless December snowfall set a record
Darrell Bellaart, The Daily NewsPublished: Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Nanaimo's snowfall has now officially topped the one-metre mark. It's something that has only happened twice before in December in all the years since Environment Canada has been keeping records.
"This year we had 116 centimetres of snow at Nanaimo Airport," said David Jones, a climatologist with Environment Canada's Vancouver office. The weather office measured 111 centimetres of snow in Nanaimo in 1964 and 107 cm in 1968. Even in December 1996, the most awe-inspiring winter in recent memory, snowfall reached 95.2 cm in the city. The all-time record for one month was in February 1975, when 122 cm fell.
Nanaimo's snowfall has only exceeded 80 cm 12 times in December since the agency first started keeping records in 1947.
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