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This week's massive two-day snowfall has not been seen in 78-years.
According to Environment Canada, snowfall in this amount, over 48-hours, was last seen in Vernon, Kelowna and Penticton in the 1930s.
“Between 33 and 38 centimetres of snow was recorded at Kelowna Airport, an amazing amount of snow over two days, and when we look back at the records to figure out when this ever happened before, we have to go back to 1937,” says Environment Canada warning preparedness meteorologist Lisa Coldwells. “During Nov. 12 and Nov. 13, 1937, again 38 cm of snow fell. So, when you are looking at that, that is an awfully long time ago.”
The Vernon area got 40 cm of snow Sunday and Monday, which came near their all time record of 50 cm of snow in two days, also set Nov. 12 and 13, 1937.
Penticton's 26 cm of snow this week just fell short of its prior two-day record set in March of 1932.
This unprecedented snowfall was due to a very cold Arctic front that won out in the meteorological battle.
“The most interesting thing that happened in this case is why it lasted so long,” says Coldwells. “Normally, the warm air comes in, erodes all the cold air and it either stops snowing or turns it to rain. In this case, with all that cold Arctic air continually refreshing itself, the warm air could not surface, and it just continued to snow.”
The Arctic front landed many Okanagan residents in deep, deep snow. Snow that is likely sticking around for a while.
“We are going to be much milder than it has been, but it's going to take a long time for all the snow to melt because I don’t see much sun in the forecast,” says Coldwells. “We are moving to a period of typical normal weather for January in the Okanagan Valley.”
Temperatures are expected to hover a couple degrees above zero during the day and a couple degrees below overnight, with generally cloudy skies.
“That is going to give us a chance for the snow to slowly melt and for people to start shovelling out from a truly remarkable amount of snow."
