What a way to end the decade! This last week has brought varied types of weather to close out the noughties. We’ve had sunshine, we’ve had rain and a bit of snow. Between Boxing Day (Dec 26th) and the 27th we had 20.2cm of rain fall on our capital. This greatly reduced our snowbanks, but also made driving a very slippery affair.Intermixed with the rain was a bit of snow; 1.8 cm fell on Boxing Day, and a trace amount on the 27th. The 28th brought us 2.4cm of snow and 0.4cm on the 29th.

According to the weathermen and weatherwomen, a couple of centimeters will close out the 2000s, and 5-10cm will help usher in the new year and the new decade. If their estimates are correct, the next 7 days will bring snow on a daily basis, with 26cm to 37cm by the time next Wednesday rolls around.

I wish you all a Happy and safe New Year!

So the weatherman lied to us and we did get snow before Christmas. Never believe those 7 day forecasts folks. 5.4 cm fell on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. Over Christmas and Boxing Day 10-15cm is expected to come down, making sure that we’re getting a white Christmas.

Hope you all have a safe and Merry Christmas/Hanukah/Kwanza/Festivus! Remember to drive safe!

We’ve had a bit more snow drop on us this week. We had 5cm fall on Sunday, 3cm on Monday and 0.6cm on Wednesday. This brings up the total to 33.6cm for the month/winter season. Its a far cry from the 93.4cm we had on the ground at this time last year, and the whopping 148.8cm we had at this time in 2007. The forecast over the next 7 days doesn’t call for any snow, so lets hope it stays that way. There’s just enough snow for this to be a white Christmas.

Environment Canada has finally released the numbers for the snow dump we received a couple of days ago. A whopping 22.2cm of snow fell on our capital. Strangely enough, my snowbanks are 3 times that height. Its very similar to the 22cm we received on Dec 9th 2008. Hopefully this isn’t a sign that we’ll have as much snow as last year.

Hi and welcome back to Snowfall! Looks like we’re going to have quite another winter ahead of us. It had been a quiet December so far, but today Mother Nature wanted to remind us of who was in charge. Between the 9th and the 10, a full 25 to 30cm is expected to have fallen upon our fair Nation’s capital. This snow storm is  one year to the day of last year’s first big snow fall (Dec 9th 2008) , which dumped 22cm of snow on us that day.