While Huron County is in the final official days of winter, a spokesperson with Environment Canada says the region hardly had a cold season to speak of.
In the Fall, Senior Climatologist David Phillips’ called for a milder-than-normal winter along Ontario’s West Coast.
As the cold season comes to an end, Phillips says temperatures were considerably lower in regions all around Midwestern Ontario, including the American East Coast, Western Canada, and the Southern United States.
“Even though people in Ontario thought we got the polar vortex in February… we only had the polar vortex on our doorstep for a couple of weeks, at most,” Phillips tells us.
Phillips says the winter ended abruptly, when a three-day warm spell prompted significant melting of snow in Huron County in early March.
“You can’t have Spring until you get rid of the look and the feel of Winter. And we got rid of the look and feel of Winter much earlier this year.”