The Stats Are In!

Time for a look back at the monthly precipitation statistics for the Bella Coola Airport for 2011.  For 2010's numbers click here.  Call it what you want, but let's just say 2011 was no 2010 and while in 2010 we were drier than Vancouver, the tables turned in 2011.

	Bella Coola Airport (mm)	Vancouver Airport (mm)
Jan	178.4 (35.0 cm snow)	186.3 (16.1 cm snow)
Feb	181.6 (37.0 cm snow)	89.4    (7.0 cm snow)
Mar	70.4   (8.8 cm snow)	152.0
Apr	52.0	95.6
May	56.0	93.8
Jun	43.0	41.0
Jul	103.6	37.6
Aug	73.5	19.6
Sep	302	69.6
Oct	135.8	73.6
Nov	273.3 (3.2 cm snow)	125.4
Dec	345.6 (47.6 cm snow)	86.8
Total 2011	1815.2 mm total precip	1070.7 mm total precip
2010	1050.5 mm total precip	1207.1 mm total precip
*2011 saw a total of 131.6 cm of snow fall in Bella Coola

You can see September and December weren't kind months for us.   There is always hope that 2012 will be kinder.

Back on this week's weather, after several very acceptable January days, tonight we are back to a little bit of snow/freezing rain and the forecast is for a whole week more of freezing conditions with snow.  Grizzly