January 2022 Forecasts and Discussions

[East Chilliwack]

Rain moving in fast, still -4.3C.

Not looking good here either, well below freezing and close to heavy rain. Already everything is covered in a sheet of ice!

[Typeing3]

December 2021 was the 5th coldest Dec. since 1937 in Vancouver.

Just to add to this... including the old downtown station data, December 2021 was the 6th coldest Dec since 1898 in Vancouver!

Edit: Maybe 7th. December 2008 also had a mean temp of 0.9c. You missed that in your tweet.

[East Chilliwack]

There is also the anomalously deep mid elevation (300-800m) snowpack too. Will add to the runoff issues here.

I do think however, that a deep snowpack may mitigate the Flooding risk, as it will absorb most of the moisture, and relatively low temperatures will keep a lot of the snow from actually melting

[Hound]

Well, this is interesting.
Vancouver forecast:

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[tyweather]

NWS has snow as Friday evening/ Saturday as well.

[tyweather]

Snow levels 200 and 500 feet.

[Canada Goose]

Just to add to this... including the old downtown station data, December 2021 was the 6th coldest Dec since 1898 in Vancouver!

Edit: Maybe 7th. December 2008 also had a mean temp of 0.9c. You missed that in your tweet.

Correct!

For 2021.

https://twitter.com/ThierryGooseBC/stat ... 5643517952

[Typeing3]

Correct!

For 2021.

YVR surpassed the 1971-2000 annual snowfall average (48.2cm) for the first time since 2008.

Great to see, but also shows how pathetic snowfall has been of late.

[Weather101]

Definitely wouldn’t want to be in the valley right now

[Hawk]

YVR surpassed the 1971-2000 annual snowfall average (48.2cm) for the first time since 2008.

Great to see, but also shows how pathetic snowfall has been of late.

And we are only at Jan 6! Past years we had nothing until Feb!

[tyweather]

Looks like Aggassiz has a min average of -2.5c, max average of +2.5c and mean of 0 c for December.

[Hawk]

u talking yearly or for the season T3?

[Typeing3]

u talking yearly or for the season T3?

Yearly.

I always go by calendar year to compare with the annual climate normals.

Here is the annual snowfall at YVR since 2009:
2009: 26.4cm
2010: 16.8cm
2011: 24.1cm
2012: 27.2cm
2013: 11.6cm
2014: 25.8cm
2015: T
2016: 28.4cm
2017: 43.4cm
2018: 25.8cm
2019: 31.2cm
2020: 45.4cm
2021: 49.3cm

[Wintergirl]

Snow, so much snow we can't keep up, freezing rain now has caused issues all over the Hwy, cars in ditches, cars crashed into other cars, black ice everywhere,complete Sh*t show out there. Trees bent down from snow load and ice, our snow banks are 5 to 6 feet high now in the driveway and even higher up and down the road. Honestly as much as I love the snow we need a break here

[Typeing3]

Snow, so much snow we can't keep up, freezing rain now has caused issues all over the Hwy, cars in ditches, cars crashed into other cars, black ice everywhere,complete Sh*t show out there. Trees bent down from snow load and ice, our snow banks are 5 to 6 feet high now in the driveway and even higher up and down the road. Honestly as much as I love the snow we need a break here

Wow. Any pictures?

That sounds similar to what mid December 2008 to early January 2009 was like in the lower mainland.