This is the last weekend of winter and it has certainly been a turbulent season across Southern New Brunswick.
Dramatic temperature swings and multiple rounds of icy precipitation like freezing rain and ice pellets have made this a winter to remember.
Weather Network meteorologist Nadine Powell says warm air and cold air alternated frequently.
“Probably heard about the polar vortex where we had a lot of the Arctic air being flooded in. So that was where we had a huge warm up and then we had cold air which was just waiting to replace it,” she notes.
Powell notes how the weather phenomenon La Nina was at play this winter which often brings extreme cold to the West and higher amounts of precipitation to the East.
Data from Environment Canada shows temperatures were about one degree above normal this winter across Southern New Brunswick and while rainfall was higher than average, snowfall was below normal.
