Talk:Climate of Vancouver
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- Where is the source for 4 to 6 thunderstomrs per year? Seems to me 2 per year is unusual.
-The official number of storms per year at YVR as per Envirnment Canada is actually 6.1 http://www.vancouver.weatherpage.ca/climate.html (source originally from EC). As for the time of year they occur I disagree with what was posted here. Its completly contrary to the official Environment Canada's record on the climate. The month with the most frequent number of thunderstorms in Vancouver is August with 1.2 thunderstorm days per year. Many of these storms are weak and may only produce one or two lightning flashes and the general public often doesn't notice.--24.83.116.205 09:25, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
- table could come earlier - replaces lots of inexact verbiage
- table also does not make Vancouver article any less readable because of length - people can quickly choose to skip it or read it - and if they skip they know what they've missed & what they have not missed. It is certainly of wider interest than former sports teams. The Vancouver article is now just 46 kB - and starting to look too short --JimWae 06:57, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Rain and Snow
How weird that the snow section is five times as long as the rain section...Skookum1 21:34, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Refering to Toronto's snowiest month on record as January 1999 is incorrect. That was Toronto's snowiest "January", the snowiest month on record was March 1870 with 158.5 cm of snow.
(source:http://www.climate.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/climateData/monthlydata_e.html)
[edit] Notable Winters of Vancouver
The article Notable Winters of Vancouver was proposed for deletion. I think that a separate article does not make sense at this point, but the information from this article (all or a part of it) can be useful here, so I am proposing a merge (Liberatore, 2006). 11:31, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
merge- Jack (talk) 20:45, 8 August 2006 (UTC)- delete - I think it's utterly superfluous, and is going to turn into a weather-memories bulletin board; like the big blizz of '96 that dumped 12ft on Victoria and brought hurricane-force outflow winds to the Fraser Valley; or xmas 67 or any number of earlier storms. The Canadian obsession with winter, and with whether or not BC has one, is BORING.Skookum1 15:59, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
- Delete per Skookum. Carson 02:12, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
-As a Vancouverite (actually from Richmond) I am very interested in Vancouver's weather. Records of previous storms should be noted as it can help in future major weather events like a repeat of "typhoon Freda" which hit in 1962. Interesting enough I do see some inconsistancies between different recounts of the historical events but they will get straightened out over time. Eventually Wikipedia will contain all of the knowledge in the world and information such as this (user accounts of historical weather) is useful.--24.83.116.205 09:25, 10 August 2006 (UTC) Fine if it's all kinds of extreme/memorable weather; but singling out winter is, speaking as a born Vancouverite, something that newcomers from Eastern Canada seem to need to talk about; we'd rather not...i.e. the contrast to the rest of Canada is superfluous from the Vancouverite perspective; we might as well compare Norway's or Japan's too; the use of "winter" is inherently that Canadian bias; why not also talk about dry/wet summers or spring freshets (which are more relevant in the locao context)?Skookum1 16:52, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
- Delete Vancouver's notable winters are boring. But for the record, winter 1935-1936 was a doozy-caused nearly as much damage to Stanley Park as typhoon freida.Bobanny 08:38, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
