THUNDER BAY -- After a 2014 that started with a major deep freeze, it would be easy to call January 2015 a mild month.
But officials with Environment Canada says for our area, January was typical.
Environment Canada spokesman Geoff Coulson says the average temperature in January was -14.6 C, which is about normal for this area. We even had some unseasonably warm days with temperatures reaching daytime highs above zero degrees.
That’s a lot different from the January of last year, which in Thunder Bay featured several major cold snaps and an average temperature of -18 C.
“That was, in fact, the coldest January since 2004,” he adds.
As for precipitation, Thunder Bay faced a lot less snow than it usually does.
“We’ve come in with about 26 centimetres of snow for the month of January,” Coulson says.
“The long-term average snowfall is 41.2 centimetres and if we look back a year ago we had 36.2 centimetres of snow.”
(CKPR Radio)