It was fairly cold and dry last month, earning Prince George it’s third driest March on record.
“For precipitation, we received 8.5 mm of precipitation and normal is 29.7 mm of precipitation and that ranked the third driest March on record,” says Environment Canada meteorologist Bobby Sekhon.
“As you remember, February was quite cold and dry and that trend continued into March in the early part of the month. When you have really cold air, it’s usually dry as well so that was a part of that whole artic air mass in place.”
February 2019 actually ranked as the coldest February ever recorded in Prince George (records weren’t kept until 1943).
However, March 2019 came in a little warmer than February ranking as the 24th coldest March on record.
“The mean temperature of the month was -2.7 C and the normal is -0.2 C,” says Sekhon.
It took until St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, before Prince George cracked above 10 C.
“We got to 11.2 C, so that was the first time we reached above 10 degrees this year,” says Sekhon. “That signified the transition of when we started to get warm temperatures, one of the warmest days of the month was March 20 where we got to 15.7 C.”
