March 2024 Forecasts and Discussions

[Typeing3]

Hey John, do you remember February 1936? That was one CRAZY cold month!

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Fraser River, Vancouver, February 1936:

[Typeing3]

00z GFS ensembles:

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00z ECMWF ensembles:

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00z GEM ensembles:

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[stuffradio]

Here's the latest ENSO forecast from CPC. The next forecast from IRI comes next week.

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Edit: The latest monthly for April is looking interesting

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[John]

Hey John, do you remember February 1936? That was one CRAZY cold month!

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She was chilly!!

[Coquitlam79]

Last 20c+ temp in March at the Pitt Meadows EC station was in 2019. That's when we were coming out that persistent cold snap dating back over a month to early February so it was pretty whacky to see snow piles still around with temps so warm.

That was a dry month too. I remember a warm stretch in March in one of those years ( 2018-2020)but I thought it was during Covid in 2020. But I checked and that year was a bone dry, but cool March. March 94 and March 98 also had very warm and dry spells. Temps over 20c. I also remember a really warm borderline hot day in March in 2001. I remember skiing at Cypress in a t-shirt in March.

[Coquitlam79]

Looks like a wet pattern returning by months end. Probably a good thing. Warm and ridgy spring patterns just turn into smoke show, disgusting summers more often than not.

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[Hawk]

today is only the beginning of a series of warm sunny days ahead..Enjoy!

[Bonovox]

today is only the beginning of a series of warm sunny days ahead..Enjoy!

One day was quite enough. Need some rain.

[SouthSardiswx]

One day was quite enough. Need some rain.

That didn't take long Bones man it's going to be a long summer with the gripers that love the rain.

[Canada Goose]

That was a dry month too. I remember a warm stretch in March in one of those years ( 2018-2020)but I thought it was during Covid in 2020. But I checked and that year was a bone dry, but cool March. March 94 and March 98 also had very warm and dry spells. Temps over 20c. I also remember a really warm borderline hot day in March in 2001. I remember skiing at Cypress in a t-shirt in March.

February 2019 was the 5th driest Feb. since 1937 in YVR.

For Pitt Meadows:

1994: 24.7°C on the 29th (5 Tx > 20°C in a row)
1998: 21.0°C on the 20th
2001: 20.4°C on the 7th
2004: 25.0°C on the 29th (monthly record)
2016: 22.9°C on the 30th (22.0°C the day after)
2019: 23.8°C (on the 19th & 20th)

[Weather101]

Looks like a wet pattern returning by months end. Probably a good thing. Warm and ridgy spring patterns just turn into smoke show, disgusting summers more often than not.
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Agreed

[PortKells]

One day was quite enough. Need some rain.

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[Rubus_Leucodermis]

Looks like a wet pattern returning by months end. Probably a good thing. Warm and ridgy spring patterns just turn into smoke show, disgusting summers more often than not.
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It’s the first act in the standard spring tease. Of course it’s not going to last (and like you pointed out, just as well).

[PortKells]

Pretty good run for mountain snow

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[SouthSardiswx]

Yeah, Microsoft restarted the computer without asking me.

Great! thanks for restarting it Abby Sr.. We reached an incredible high of 14c in the central valley today.