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Originally Posted by fenwick16
I just checked that webcam out. You can really get a sense of the wind and snow from the live sound feed. Hopefully for the sake of Haligonians, the snow will be gone within a few days.
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It's quite late in the year. The forecast is calling for +12 for Halifax in a couple of days.
I have some 1981-2010 climate data from Environment Canada and it lists how many snow storms of a given size you can expect during each month. A snow storm >= 25 cm only happens, on average, once every 10 years in March (0.10 per year). The average number of storms in April is 0 -- there were no snowstorms >= 25 cm of snow in April between 1981 and 2010 (the probability of >= 10 cm is 0.05, so once every 20 years).
It's interesting to think about how accurate these numbers really are with climate change. The overall climate in Halifax went up by about 0.3 C from the 1971-2000 to the 1981-2010 period, but the variability in weather events may have gone up as well. Maybe events like this will become more common in the future, even though the average winter day will be a bit warmer.
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