If you’re under 35 and are sure this is the wickedest Winnipeg winter you’ve ever seen, Environment Canada confirmed Wednesday you’re right—we haven’t seen a colder one since installing shag carpeting wasn’t ironic.
The national weather service considers the winter months to be December, January, and February (really?) and they report the mean temperature (it certainly isn’t a nice temperature) over those three months in Winnipeg has been -20.1 C, the coldest recorded since 1978/79 and the third coldest winter we’ve seen in more than 100 years.
“There was a number of very cold winters back in the 1870s and 1880s… but once we got into the 20th century there were very few,” Environment Canada meteorologist Dale Marciski told Metro. “So in a historical context (this winter) has been pretty significant.”
Matters are made worse by the sheer number of ridiculously cold days we’ve had; we’ve seen 72 days where the wind-chill has been -30 or below (compared to our average of just 40) and 29 days where the wind-chill has made it feel like -40 or below (we average just 12 of those stinkers normally).
And, of course, it’s hard to forget Jan. 5 when the wind-chill made it feel like -51.
“The weather pattern this year is very persistent,” said Marciski, explaining a combination of artic air blowing in from the north and the dreaded Polar Vortex phenomena are to blame. “It’s just been continuous and there’s been very few breaks.”
Despite Environment Canada’s forecast for much of the same cold weather over the next week, Marciski did have some good news for Winnipeggers.
“Winter will eventually have to move on,” he said. “It always does.”
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come on, we survive -52 with wind chill.. and they always say winnipeggers still stand strong.. and that's what winnipeggers are all about
we stand strong despite the coldness and of course not to forget it's summer national bird.. the mosquitoes..
and i'm proud that i stiff through winnipeg for 5 years
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