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British Columbia is rather large on its own. I'd be curious to see what you got for BC, just to compare it with Washington further south (and possibly Alaska, if you got data up near the Alaska border).
I'm on my other computer right now, so I don't have the data in front of me, but here is a map showing the southern half of BC and part of Alberta. This is not an exhaustive list of weather stations, but you get the idea.
I have two weather stations highlighted. The southern one (Okanagan Centre) deviated from the average by +0.4C while the other one (McLeese Lake) situated 2 degrees north to the north deviated by -5.6C/10.1F. I will have to check my other computer to see how this fits with total ranking.
British Columbia's March was 77th warmest of 120 years with an average deviation of -0.60C of normal. This is fairly close to normal. February, on the other hand, was -3.62 degrees of normal. This was the most below normal month since December 1997, and the 10th coldest February ever.
The coldest February ever by a full 4 degrees C over 2nd place was February 1936 (-9.46C/-17F). 2nd place was 1922.
Warmer, humid (more so than January and February!), cloudier and much wetter with an higher than usual number of rain days. Even though the city site observed less than the average rainfall, all other sites in the greater Sydney area measured, in excess, falls . Dover Heights recorded 182mm and Rose Bay (incomplete) 159mm. It were also the stormiest March on record.
It was the 2nd coldest February-March in my lifetime, and the coldest since 1989 where I live. January was very warm though.
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Originally Posted by nei
odd since Washington looks warm according to NOAA maps.
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Originally Posted by nei
British Columbia is rather large on its own. I'd be curious to see what you got for BC, just to compare it with Washington further south (and possibly Alaska, if you got data up near the Alaska border).
Chicagogeorge posted the anomaly map. You can see WA was warmer than there.
Remember guys... The "Flow" of things is just as important as latitude or water temps. I see it getting ignored too many times that's why I'm bringing it up. It's just the way things were setup why Washington was warmer than BC.
Here's the mean 500mb heights that shows the average flow/heights for March. Lower heights(colder) just north of U.S Border in West. The Ridge didn't peak as high in the West in March.
850mb temp anomaly shows the surface departures a bit better. Where it was colder than normal aloft was where the surface was too. Vise versa where it was warmer than normal aloft.
I think Massachusetts is 8th there. New Hampshire is 2nd. Connecticut is 9th. Rhode Island 15th.
Whoops. Read that too fast, I guess. Alaska was really warm this winter. Record breaking heat in Barrow! February was 7.0°F above normal, with a monthly mean of -7.0°F.
The mild winter in Alaska is in sharp contrast to that in the eastern portions of the contiguous U.S. where Marquette, Michigan just observed a -5°F temperature on April 16th: its coldest such reading for so late in the season and also the latest date for a zero or below temperature ever observed. As of April 17th some 28” of snow still lies on the ground (18.3” of which fell in the past four days). Additionally, Lake Superior is clogged by the most ice (34% coverage) for this time so late in the season since accurate measurements of such began in 1973.
Note the percentile and deviation maps give somewhat different results; this has been discussed previously. But it's a good illustration. Northern Siberia stands out as among the highest positive temperature deviations in the map, while a few spots in the North Pacific and Atlantic come out higher in a percentile scale. Similarly, some spots in Central Europe had their warmest March on record, but had a lower deviation than much of Siberia.
After and incredibly warm and wet winter, which followed an incredibly warm (especially October) and wet (especially November) autumn, we had a March roughly on average.
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