It snowed for 23 out of 24 hours on Thanksgiving Monday, according to the official weather station at the Calgary International Airport.
Although the total accumulation reached only 4.4 cm, that was enough to make it the snowiest Thanksgiving Monday on record.
There have been only 10 Thanksgiving Mondays over the past 85 years when snow fell. On three of those days there was a trace amount, or less than 0.2 cm of snow. The other seven days ranged from 0.5 cm to 4.4 cm.
As to the cold, there have been 50 Thanksgiving Mondays out of the past 85 with daytime highs of at least 13°C. Of those 50, 14 years had daytime highs of at least 20°C.
There have only been two years that had daytime highs on Thanksgiving Monday below freezing. The coldest was in 2009, when the daytime high was -5.1°C.
This year is the only other Thanksgiving Monday that was officially freezing, when the high temperature reached -0.2°C.
Editor’s Note: Thanksgiving didn’t have a set day in Canada until 1931. From 1931 on, Thanksgiving was considered to occur on the second Monday of October.
This was Calgary’s snowiest and second coldest Thanksgiving Monday in 85 years
Thanks to Kevin A for this link
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