2021 - Vancouver - WT_!
Saturday 13 February residents in downtown Vancouver awoke to a healthy blanket of snow - our first and likely only snow event this winter.
Unusual for a Canadian city, Vancouver has relatively mild winters with little snow. Cold air from the Arctic that sweeps over the rest of Canada in winter is typically blocked from reaching Vancouver by the coastal mountain range.
Vancouver has very mild winters by Canadian standards. The average daily temperature during the three coldest months (Dec., Jan., Feb.) is 4 degrees Celsius / 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
Vancouver's winters are very wet, with some rain on 51 days out of 90. On average it snows on only 7 days every winter.
For about nine days a year, Vancouver has at least a centimetre of snow on the ground. Since it rains more than snows during winter, the remnants of a snowfall usually wash away before long.
2021 - Vancouver - WT_!
Saturday 13 February residents in downtown Vancouver awoke to a healthy blanket of snow - our first and likely only snow event this winter.
Unusual for a Canadian city, Vancouver has relatively mild winters with little snow. Cold air from the Arctic that sweeps over the rest of Canada in winter is typically blocked from reaching Vancouver by the coastal mountain range.
Vancouver has very mild winters by Canadian standards. The average daily temperature during the three coldest months (Dec., Jan., Feb.) is 4 degrees Celsius / 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
Vancouver's winters are very wet, with some rain on 51 days out of 90. On average it snows on only 7 days every winter.
For about nine days a year, Vancouver has at least a centimetre of snow on the ground. Since it rains more than snows during winter, the remnants of a snowfall usually wash away before long.