We had a warm November but a cooler and drier than usual December in the West Kootenay.
Weather forecaster Chris Cowan at the Southeast Fire Centre says our mean temperature was -3.9 degrees.
We saw 78.8 cm of snow fall, our average is 64.8 cm.
Also, we recorded just 1 mm of rain in December.
That’s well below the monthly average of 31.3 mm.
There were 17 days of measurable precipitation which is on par with our region’s average.