As many of you heard on the news, back at the end of November there was an actual snowstorm in Victoria and Vancouver. This was the first real snow there has been since we moved here, the first that didn't just get rained away within 24 hours. There were still traces of it a week later even, which is really rare for here. It also went down to a low of -10.5 C, which I know isn't very cold, but the coldest temperature ever recorded by Environment Canada in Victoria (more precisely at the airport) is only -15.6 C, back in 1950, so people around here think that -10 C is really bone-chilling. We actually thought it was quite lovely, and the combination of sun and snow was almost blinding after our eyes had started to adjust to mole-like light levels throughout a very rainy November.
Here's a couple of views from our back balcony in the last days of November:
And finally, this one was taken a couple of days later, but it's just to illustrate how rainy November really was. This large bucket is what we use to chill our kegs when we buy them, and it was completely empty November 1st after our Halloween party. Then it just sat there, getting rained on every day, for a whole month, and was completely filled. November is usually the rainiest month in Victoria - on average we receive 147.2 mm of precipitation, out of an annual average of 883.3 mm. This year in November alone we received 351.9 mm. Moss is growing on me as I type.
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