Meteorological winter fairly mild for Calgary
Posted Mar 4, 2015 4:00 pm.
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Meteorological winter may be over and as far as season go, it wasn’t a bad one as far as Calgary’s concerned.
Looking back at the last three days, 62 per cent of them had days where the mercury managed to make it over the freezing mark.
“Several things were going on this winter but the major thing we had was a big ridge of high pressure anchored out west of us, sometimes over British Columbia, sometimes it was a little further west, out over the ocean,” said 660 Meteorologist David Spence. “It deflected any storms coming in from the Pacific, well to our north. And while we enjoyed dry, warm weather here in the south, places like Edmonton got one snow storm or freezing rain storm after the other for those three months.”
Spence says the highest temperature we saw over the three month period was 17.2 degrees.
“Winter was reminsicent of ones we saw in the 1980s, it wasn’t a record February, that was back in 1977.”
The average high temperature for every day, was 1.8 degrees for December, January and February, while the normal for that period is minus 0.3.
