Warm March brings little snowfall and average amount of rain
Posted Apr 7, 2025 04:19:13 AM.
Last Updated Apr 7, 2025 10:00:26 AM.
Warmer days are coming as we begin this chilly spring week.
Single-digit highs are in the forecast all week, with the chance of flurries both Monday and Tuesday. That wasn’t the case last month, with highs in the 20s mid-month and hardly any snow.
The E.D. Soulis Memorial Weather Station at the University of Waterloo has released its weather recap for March.
Despite temperatures reaching nearly 21 C mid-month, it was only the fifth warmest month in the last ten years.
And despite big rain and freezing rain at the end of the month, the weather station says there was just an average amount of precipitation at just over 65 mm of rain.
When it comes to snowfall, only 3 cm of snow was recorded due to the warmer temperatures.
“The warm temperatures meant that the snowfall for the month was only 3.0 cm, obviously much less than the average of 26.5 cm. However, for the snowfall season, we are at 194.0 cm, compared to the average of a typical season of 159.7 cm,” reads a release from the weather station.
The average high for March was 7.3C, and the average low was -3.9C.
