By Ashley Legassic

Kamloops had its coldest February since 1936

Mar 1, 2019 | 12:31 PM

KAMLOOPS — Well below normal temperatures made for the fifth coldest February on record for Kamloops.

Environment Canada meteorologist Carmen Hartt says the mean temperature during February is 0.1 C, but last month was much colder than normal.

“This month the average temperature for the month was -8.6 C, so we were about eight and a half degrees below normal for the whole month,” she says.

The coldest temperature on record was set in 1936, when the average was -15 C in the city, making February 2019 the coldest in Kamloops since.

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“Our records go back really far — they go back all the way to 1891. But all the colder temperatures were before 1936,” Hartt explains. 

Hartt adds that the snow accumulation during the month was well above normal.

“We measured 18.5 centimetres at the weather station, and that compares to a normal snowfall of eight centimetres in the month,” she says. “There were eight days of measurable snowfall versus the normal four days.”

Hartt says moving into March, the cold trend is expected to stick around, but things should warm up toward the end of the month.