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Here's what El Nino means for Canada's winter
(www.ctvnews.ca)
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Two days of snow sure doesn't seem like the winter I remember. In the winter I remember you'd have 4 or 5 big snows like that and the snow would stick around for the rest of the season. Now if you don't rush out to build your snowman the next day, your chance is gone.
No time since at least 1990 was that ever consistently true. There have been a lot of years since then without much snow. 1998 is famously the year that winter forgot. It may go back even further, but I'm too young to have the appropriate memories.
It is definitely true that some years are like that, but even 2021 was like that. If you recall, snow-time activities were all the rage that year because we had consistent snow cover throughout the winter and everyone was otherwise stuck at home because of COVID giving reason to get out and enjoy the snow.