2022 Year-in-Review Part 3: Snow

And finally we have reached the end of our 2022 Year-in-Review Part 3: Snow!

• Part 1: Temperatures
• Part 2: Precipitation
• Part 3: Snow

Sometimes the dashboards in these posts will become corrupted, and so if you are reading this in the future and things no longer make sense the original charts are here:

• https://twitter.com/yegwxnerdery/status/1609716807757336577
• https://mstdn.ca/@yegwxnerdery/109616939859117782

 

How was the snow for Edmonton and other Canadian cities last year?

(the Blatchford weather station near downtown Edmonton no longer records snowfall or snowdepth, so most of the numbers today will be from the International Airport.)

 

Monthly Snow

Here we have the snow for each month (including during the summer).

2022's only very snowy month was November, with 32cm while our average is 21cm. January-March & December were really close to average, while April, May, September & October were all low.

 

Total Snow

This chart has the cumulative snow for year (it looks a little strange because it includes the summer months). We average about 120cm of snow each year, and 2022 was right on that with 119cm.

 

Snow Across Canada

For these cities across Canada Vancouver's 54cm was the lowest, then 84cm in Halifax. Edmonton is next with 119cm. Up at the top are Ottawa with 263cm and St. John's with 253cm.

 

Last & First Snowfalls

This is a comparison of the snow seasons, with Edmonton and Calgary usually starting around October 1st and lasting through May 1st. Central and Eastern Canada start a month or so later in November, and usually end in April.

 

The Spring Melt

Edmonton had a fairly early spring melt in 2022, with the snow mostly gone at most of the stations by the beginning of April, while the average is closer to mid-April.

This one is a little busy, but it shows the spring 2022 snowdepths for other cities, and both Winnipeg and St. John's hung onto their snow a little longer than Edmonton into April.

 

Fall Snow

Around Edmonton the fall snow kicked-off in the first week of November, and the cold November & December kept all of the stations high through the end of December. The average snowdepth for the end of December is 14cm, and this year the stations ranged from 22cm up to 37cm.

A busy chart again, but at the end of 2022 Ottawa's snowdepth jumped up to 53cm, but then fell quickly back to 26cm. At yearend that leaves Edmonton in the top-spot with 31cm. Winnipeg has 14cm, Regina has 11cm, and everyone else is below 10cm.

 

Snowstorms

For big, 10cm+ snowstorms 2022 Edmonton recorded 2: 10.7cm on March 3 & 4 13.2cm on November 1 & 2

Edmonton's biggest single-day snowfalls in 2022 were all in the 7~8cm range.

For really big 20cm+ storms (over 2 days): 

• Calgary had 23cm in April
• Winnipeg had 29cm in April 
• Toronto had 34cm in January
• Ottawa had 48cm in January and 36cm in December
• Montréal had 20cm in February and 31cm in December 
• St. John's had 44cm in February

The biggest single-day snowfalls were Ottawa with 48cm & 33cm, St. John's with 36cm, Toronto with 29cm, and Winnipeg with 25cm.

And that finally brings us to the end of our long look back at the weather for 2022. As always, all of these charts are interactive dashboards with data for all of these Canadian cities.