By Josh Hall (Twitter: @Vancan19)

Frozen February to make way for Mild March in Red Deer area

Feb 23, 2018 | 3:56 PM

It’s been a frigid February in Central Alberta, but warmer weather is on the way. 

Though temperatures in and around Red Deer dipped quite a bit in December and January, they averaged right around normal according to Environment Canada Meteorologist Dan Kulak.

February has been a different story.

“We’re about nine degrees below normal,” Kulak says, giving credit to the cooling of surface ocean waters along South America’s west coast, better known as La Niña.

Through the first 20 days of this month, the average temperature has been -18 degrees celcius, including 15 days where temperatures reached -20 or lower.

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“The real interesting tidbit talking about weather in central Alberta as we move into March and April is the fact that they tend to be snowier than February,” Kulak says. “The fact we’ll get snow in March and April is really a sign of spring, not a sign of winter continuing, as weird as that may seem.”

The colder weather trends this month have affected most parts of Alberta, while storms have primarily tracked through the southwest part of the province.

Kulak says temperatures should rise to just below freezing around the start of March, also noting that daily snowfall accumulations are no longer being recorded across Canada.