No Snow In November, But It’s Coming
Posted November 30, 2009 9:41 am.
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Looking for something?
Maybe it’s the snow you – along with ski-hill operators, would-be tobogganers and children waiting for a day off school – have been missing.
Normally in November, Toronto sees 8.1cm of snow. This year, we’ve seem less than that – much less.
Not a single flake has touched down in the city in the past 30 days.
“It’s been wild from start to finish,” acknowledged CityNews Meteorologist Michael Kuss.
“We had snow [in early 2009], we had a wild summer, especially at the tail end of it with a tornado outbreak, and it’s been a mild and dry fall so far,” he added.
While it seems odd, it’s not that unusual.
In 2006, the most recent November on record, Environment Canada noted that there were only “trace” amounts of snow. Most of what we got was rain – 98mm of it, in fact.
In 2005, we saw 8cm of snow – a return to average for Ontario’s capital. But the year before that, it was once again “trace” amounts of the white stuff.
The last time we were completely without flurries was back in the 1840s.
We’re getting off easy: the most snow that ever fell on one day in November was back in 1950. On November 24, 30.5cm blanketed the city.
We’ll be seeing a small taste of that later in the week. The forecast calls for rain or snow on Thursday, and on Saturday, there’s a 30 per cent chance of flurries.
Here’s how the past 20 years stacked up:
November Snowfalls
2003: 7cm
2002: 26.6cm
2001: Trace
2000: 1.2cm
1999: 1.2cm
1998: Trace
1997: 29.0cm
1996: 10cm
1995: 31.2cm
1994: 4cm
1993: 1.8cm
1992: 7.2cm
1991: Trace
1990: 0.6cm
1989: 15cm
Source: Environment Canada
