Vancouver cold: City experiences chilliest February on record

You can make fun of Vancouverites' apparent weakness for cold weather all you want, but the past month did set a record for freezing temperatures.

According to Environment Canada, February was the coldest month since records began being kept in 1937.

The average daily temperature for the month was 0.3 C compared to the past 30 year average of 4.9 C, a difference of more than fourdegrees.

The city also made it into the top 10 snowiest Februarys with 31.2 centimetres of the white stuff. The record, 61 centimetres, was set in 1949.

In Februaryin Vancouver,there were 13 days when snow fell. That is 11 days more than the averagefor the month, which is two.

Victoria also had the snowiest February on recordwith 68.3 centimetres of snow. More than 26 centimetres fell on Feb. 11, according to Environment Canada.

According to CBC meteorologist Johanna Wagstaffe, the long range outlook for March for the coast is for colder than average temperatures.