October sends chills through Winnipeggers
CBC News
Posted: Nov 1, 2012 7:57 AM CT
Last Updated: Nov 1, 2012 10:49 AM CT
Snow dusted vehicles on sales lots along Regent Avenue in Winnipeg on Oct. 4. (Neil Carleton/CBC)
A streak of 19 months of warmer-than-normal temperatures has come to an end in Winnipeg.
October was the first colder-than-normal month since March 2011, according to Dave Phillips, Environment Canada's senior climatologist.
"And it was fairly cold, particularly in the afternoons, that's when people noticed it the most — almost 2 ½ degrees colder than normal," he said.
October 2012 was also wetter than normal, with five days of more than 10 millimeters of rain. Usually, in a month, there's one day like that, Phillips said.
But take heart, he predicts normal temperatures in November.
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