The winter that wasn’t
Posted Mar 11, 2010 03:14:08 PM.
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It seems winter has bid farewell to Canada, at least as far as snow and cold.
Right across the country this has been the winter that wasn’t.
“Nationally, in 63 years of record-keeping, this was the warmest and also the driest,” says David Phillips, a senior climatologist with Environment Canada.
Phillips says this was the third warmest and third driest winter on record for the Maritimes.
News 95.7 Meteorologist Richard Zurawski says the dying days of winter won’t be much different.
“For the next 10 days we’re not seeing anything and if we get to the last third of March and we haven’t got a major snowstorm it’s unlikely that we’re going to get one,” says Zurawski. “But again, you never say never.”
Both weather-watchers say this dry, warm winter may have an impact on the summer.
