Thread by @yegwxnerdery

Believe it or not, we've reached the midpoint of #yegwinter. #yegwx
The average temperatures won't really start rising for another few weeks, but they also bottomed-out a few weeks ago...1/
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...and we're just passed the point of peak -20°C.
We will inevitably have more cold days before the end of winter, but from now on the likelihood of getting those starts to drop. 2/

And so what has Winter 2018-2019 brought us so far?
November started quite cold (September & October were also very cold), but since then things have generally been above average.
Notably, there have been no deepfreezes. Last winter (in red) there were a few by now. 3/

...so far we've only had 2 Lows hit -20°C (🤞)
Last year by this point we'd had 14 (including some -30°C) and the year before was 18.
Other recent mild winters like 2011-2012 & 2015-2016 had had 4 cold days by this point. 4/

...when we add up all of the temperatures, so far the winter of 2018-2019 is the 2nd warmest winter in the last 10 years - behind only 2011-2012. But we'll wait until March to see were it sits historically. 5/

...for lasting snow on the ground we're not quite halfway through winter.
Right now we're ~2.5 months in, and probably have about 3 to go. 6/

...right now the International has 15cm of snow of the ground. That's a bit below average, but it is more than the 10cm which we had last year. But last winter things really took off in late January. /end

...a quick addition: we never predict things around here, but this shows Edmonton's recent history of warm&cold months.
We had mild a Nov-Dec-Jan in 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2011 & 2015. And this gives a sense of what the rest of those winters were like.