Also one of the snowiest since 1898 – and it’s not over yet.
“No Winnipegger alive has ever experienced the kind of winter we’ve just survived.” says CBS News.
Environment Canada’s senior climatologist Dave Phillips said Friday Winnipeg is emerging from the coldest winter since 1898.
“It was 116 years ago,” he said. “And think about it. In 1898, there was no talk of global warming or urban heat islands, no cars or pavements and the population was a twentieth of what it is now in Winnipeg.”
He said on average, temperatures during the period of December through March were 6 degrees colder than normal.
Phillips also said the past winter was one of the snowiest since 1898 – in more than a century.
On top of that, Winnipeg got another 5 cm of snow on Thursday.
“Don’t put away the snow shovel,” warned Phillips. Twelve per cent of Manitoba’s annual snowfall arrives in April.
Thanks to Jason Cragg for this link
“I live in ‘Winterpeg’ and as of today snow banks on the side of the roads within the city are still 4 feet high or more,” says Jason. “When will it end????????”