On the 30th of December in 1968 the temperature in Cranbrook bottomed out at –40 degrees Celsius. The average snow depth for the month of December from 1971 to the year 2000 was 17cm. Although daily average for December in that thirty year period was milder at –7degrees C, Decembers were generally a lot colder than the one we have just experienced.
This December 30th 2011 our predicted high is 4 degrees C with a low of -4 degrees C and we’ll be lucky if we have much snow in town by the end of the day. We have experienced mild December temperatures before as on the winter of 1975 when the high for the 9th of December was 12.2 degrees C. but this December must be shaping up to be one for the record books.
Does anyone out there remember such a brown Christmas before, as the one we have just experienced in town?
Stats according to:
http://www.eldoradocountyweather.com/canada/climate2/Cranbrook.html
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