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Originally Posted by _Richard_
weird.. strongest winter in over 40 years? while other areas are reporting record breaking temperatures?
i wonder what it all means
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It means that back in the 70's we had one or two vicious winters, one in particular for sure that lasted way past the usual start to spring and was insanely cold for long stretches. Then roughly 40 years later we had another one... the one last year.
This year by comparison was, well like I said, a cakewalk. Hardly any snow really, maybe a foot and a half to 2 ft at most spread out over the entire winter. For here that's basically nothing.
The winters in Manitoba and NW Ontario don't seem to care much about any warming trends, global or otherwise. Our winters always just do what they do regardless of what's going on in other parts of N america.
I'll say this about our winters though... since the air here is super dry in winter we tend to get mostly light powdery snow that is easy to shovel, as opposed to down east or out west where large dumpings of wet heavy snow exists.