Winter 2020/2021 Snowfall Reports

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Re: Winter 2020/2021 Snowfall Reports

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Oops, I just realized that I posted Penticton twice instead of Williams Lake the second time...
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I was at Sun Peaks for 3 days in January. Didn't seem like a lot this year... unlike Silver Star.
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Not only below normal, but record low snowpack in Revelstoke over this past winter. It's really strange, we've been dry and warm, and yet somehow they tell us the snowpack is above normal.
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BTW, Kamloops averages more snow depth than Calgary at the height of winter!
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Glacier wrote: Wed Mar 17, 2021 11:38 am peaksnowvan.png

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Interesting... but the graphics don't appear to match, unless I'm interpreting something incorrectly. Should the second image say "average", instead of "average peak"?
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Fall/Winter 2023/24
Low min: -16.6C (Jan 12th)
Low max: -9.9C (Jan 12th)
Snowfall: 8.0 cm
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Abby_wx wrote: Wed Mar 17, 2021 2:18 pm Interesting... but the graphics don't appear to match, unless I'm interpreting something incorrectly. Should the second image say "average", instead of "average peak"?
Ya, the second is not really related to the first. I've updated the language to make it more clear. There's a difference between:
1) the average snow depth (snow depth each day divided by the number of days in a year),
2) the average peak (the peak each year divided by the number of years),
3) and the average snow depth at the highest time year, or the perhaps better explained as the amount of snow on the day with the highest daily average (that I'm trying to show with this graph).

For example, for Vancouver,
1) the average daily amount = 0.26 cm
2) the average peak = 13.7 cm (this is the average of all the points on the first graph)
3) the highest daily amount's average = 3.0 cm
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Abby_wx wrote: Wed Mar 17, 2021 2:18 pm Interesting... but the graphics don't appear to match, unless I'm interpreting something incorrectly. Should the second image say "average", instead of "average peak"?
It's quite amazing how Alberta cities get their deepest snow depths in late March, April and May. Eg. Lethbridge.
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Fun fact: Whistler doesn't actually get a lot of snow. Even places in the interior at LOWER elevations get more snow. eg. Mica Creek!
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Canada Goose wrote: Fri Mar 26, 2021 12:05 pm Want snow? :twisted:

https://twitter.com/ThierryGooseBC/stat ... 8313662464
I did that Lake last summer, and it is an absolutely gorgeous place. I seem to recall the winter route is slightly different.
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Climo :cancel: 81 to 44 :14clown: GFS

Season total: 39.0 cm + 3 traces
Peak depth: 28.0 cm (Jan 17)
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Sardisbcwx wrote: Mon Dec 21, 2020 10:54 pm Chillwack: south Sardis
Dec. 21 20cm
Jan 25 2cm
Feb 13 Trace
Season total: 29cm
:lol: l missed updating this c**p oh well updated final season total.
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:team: Canoodles record: 44-18-8
:gramps: Wrinkle Rockers: 43cm :wtf:
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