Well, the good thing about this late-March cold snap is that I can drink the tap water again, and have a shower without making my whole apartment smell like swimming pool. 🙃

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(Organic compounds in spring snowmelt runoff cause very stinky chemical reactions with the chloramine used to sterilize tap water. The rain last week put that to extreme levels that lasted through the weekend. Just washing hands would give me a bit of a headache from the chlorine smell.)

Another 3cm of snow on March 25th brings the airport's total for March to 12.3cm. So we're slowly getting closer to March's average of 20cm.
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The airport got 4.3cm of snow on March 24th. #yegwx #yeg
That brings the total for March so far to 9.3cm, when the average for March is around 20cm.
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The airport got 1.7cm of snow yesterday.
On average we get around 25cm after the start of spring.
The lowest recent years were 2023 & 2016 with 11cm, while the highest was 2017 with 43cm.
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For what it's worth, on average we get around 25cm of snow after March 20th.
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So much hail. Sounds wicked. I thought today would be snow.

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The big drops in snowdepth continued, with the airport down to 1cm, and Stony Plain at 7cm. Blatchford has also dropped a lot, but is still at 26cm. #yegwx #yeg
(all of that is just in time for things to cool off again...)
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March 18th saw big drops in snowdepth at the local stations, with the airport getting down to 3cm. #yegwx #yeg
All of the rain that we're getting today will probably take another big chunk out of it.
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March 17th's High of 15.2°C made it our 3rd warmest St. Patrick's Day on record. The record of 16.1°C is shared between 1885 & 1910.
The morning's Low of 0.3°C was the 6th warmest. 1959 has that record with 2.8°C.
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