Remembrance Day

Unfortunately a few days late, but here is the history of Edmonton weather for Remembrance day, November 11.

Temperatures

This history of Remembrance Day weather goes back almost 40 years before Remembrance Day was created. The warmest November 11th in Edmonton was in 1900, with a high of 19°C. The coldest was 1940, with a low of -33°C.

The averages for the last 30 years are a high of -1°C and a low of -8°C, although things bounce around quite a bit. 2015 was quite warm at 5°C, but 2012-2014 were all well below the average, and were the coldest Remembrance Days since the mid-1980s.

Precipitation

In terms of precipitation, the last significant snowfall on Remembrance Day was in 2002, with 6cm at the International and 2cm downtown. Rain isn't very common at this time of year, with only 2 rainy days ever recorded, the most recent of which was in 1933.

Snow of the Ground

Here we have the measured amount of snow on the ground. 

Similar to what we saw when I looked at Edmonton's first lasting snowfall, we can see that Remembrance Day has snow about half of the time. Just recently, 2012-2014 had significant snow, but the years just before that from 2007-2011 had none.