‘It’s quite remarkable’: Halifax is about to set a record for lack of snow | 24CA News
Halifax hasn’t seen any snowbanks or snowplows to date this winter, and the shortage of lasting flakes is about to interrupt a report.
Saturday will break the report for the newest date into winter with out having not less than two centimetres of snow on the bottom on the Halifax Stanfield International Airport, based on Jim Abraham, president of the Canadian Meteorological Oceanographic Society.
While the remainder of the nation is getting walloped by snow and ice, Nova Scotia is an outlier.
“We haven’t had any significant snow in Halifax, in fact less than two centimetres for the whole month,” Abraham stated in an interview Friday. “It’s quite remarkable since the normal December snowfall for Halifax is around 45 centimetres.”
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Abraham stated the report was set in 2012 when the province “had another remarkably mild and snow-free year,” and snow did not come till Dec. 30.
This 12 months, since no snow is anticipated earlier than Saturday, it will likely be the primary time the world has made it by December with out getting two centimetres of snow on the bottom.
Abraham stated for the reason that airport is inland, on common it will get extra snow than the downtown space of town. It has solely recorded 1.4 centimetres this month, which suggests even much less accumulation nearer to Halifax harbour.
No snow is nice news for golf programs within the Halifax space.
Doug MacLeod, appearing supervisor at Indian Lake Golf Course, stated the course will keep open so long as it is not coated in snow or soaked by rain.
He stated many golfers are hardy. He stated the course is totally booked Dec. 30 and 31.
“Everybody’s thrilled,” he stated. “There’s a lot of sports teams attire out on the course and you can hear lots of cheers going on from around the course at the moment.”
MacLeod stated whereas it is “absolutely fantastic” for business to have winter golf, it is fairly surprising.
He stated it’s uncommon to have temperatures this heat this late in December. “It is definitely unseasonal for this time of year here in Nova Scotia.”
MacLeod stated in the previous few years he has seen a shift in climate patterns, with snow arriving later. He stated he expects extra snow in January that may trigger the course to maneuver to indoor simulators solely.
Snowy winter might nonetheless be within the playing cards
Abraham stated this remark is backed up by science, and no snow early within the season would not essentially imply a light winter.
He pointed to previous winters like 2015 the place snow, ice, and freezing rain plagued the province into April, and stated issues can change rapidly.
“The fact that we’ve not had much snow in December, and looks like we’re starting January … quite mild, doesn’t really have any indication what it will be like toward the latter half of the winter in February and March,” he stated.
Abraham stated altering climate patterns are in keeping with a altering local weather, and having no ice on the waters surrounding Atlantic Canada might truly trigger extra snow.
This means the extreme winter climate that has been hitting the remainder of Canada might hit us later.
“When the cold air gets here, because, let’s face it, it will get here, we’ll get our period of colder than normal temperatures,” he stated. “We’re going to have lots of open water … and that’s going to be a really good moisture supply for the cold air and the storms.
“And so it’s attainable that the truth that we began out above regular, it might contribute to snowier than regular climate.”
