It’s going to be difficult for anyone to figure out if we have broken any daily snowfall records this month.
That’s because since January of 2013, there have been no daily snowfall measurements taken by Environment Canada.
When the airport site was taken over by NavCanada back in 2013, they discontinued the snowfall observations.
“Environment Canada attempted to find an observer to record snowfall information but was unsuccessful in doing so due to lack of interest and/or poor siting location of where the observer would measure the snow (i.e. proposed sites were not representative of the surrounding area),” stated Geoff Coulson, Warning Preparedness Meteorologist, Meteorological Service of Canada, in an email to BayToday.ca.
BayToday looked into the problem after noticing on the Environment Canada website that there were no snowfall records recorded after that date. Coulson says Environment Canada installed an automated observing site in 2017 which measure snow on the ground and total precipitation.
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However, while there is a total amount of snow reading on the ground, the daily snow amount says it is missing.
The North Bay-Mattawa Conservation Authority measures snow depth and water equivalence in North Bay, Corbeil and Chisholm Township on a monthly basis in the winter months.
Data for the season can be found on the NBMCA website at www.nbmca.ca.