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 (h/t to Dan) The official numbers released by Environment Canada confirm what we already suspected - April in Victoria was pretty awful.
Last
month saw the coolest temperatures for April in 36 years and an
record-setting average daily low, said Anne McCarthy, weather services
specialist.
The average daily high for April was 11.2 C degrees,
below the normal 13.2 C degrees and the third coolest on record. The
average daily low of 2.1 was two degrees below normal, breaking the
record of 2.2 C degrees set in 1972.
We saw record-setting low temperatures on April 1, 9th and 20th.
Rainfall
amounts of 34.5 millimetres were 10 mm below normal. The snowfall of
12.2 centimetres buried the old record for the month of 7.1 cm, set in
1955.
On the bright side, the number of hours of sunshine was near normal.
Nanaimo also reported a record snowfall of 24 cm on April 19 while Port Hardy had the latest snowfall on record on April 29. Source
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