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City crews clear snow at 102nd Street and 105th Avenue in Fort St. John Tuesday morning following Sunday's record snowfall.
It was a snowy weekend in Fort St. John and there's a new record to prove it.
According to Environment Canada, a total of 17 centimetres of the white stuff blanketed the city over the weekend,
with a record 9.8 centimetres falling on Sunday on top of the seven centimetres that fell on Saturday.
Dawson Creek had only a light dusting of snow on Saturday, but saw 6.5 centimetres fall on Sunday.
"It was a good little Arctic front that passed over you guys," said Matt MacDonald, meteorologist with Environment Canada.
"It's been not the snowiest of winters up there, and, as I always caution people, March typically comes in like a lion, and I think it was a perfect example," he said.
The previous snowfall record for March 6 in Fort St. John was 6.6 centimetres in 1966.
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Warmer temperatures are in the forecast for the rest of the week, with a high temperature of 7 C predicted for Wednesday in Fort St. John. The normal high for this time of year is -1 C, MacDonald said.
"So that's a good seven, eight degrees warmer than normal," he said.
It's typical of what we've seen this winter - "It's been very mild, been one of the mildest winters on record, and that's all owing to good old El Nino," he said.
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