Southern New Brunswick has been the target of Old Man Winter’s wrath in recent weeks.
Greater Saint John and Moncton bore the brunt of several winter storms in January.
Moncton saw close to 150 centimetres of snow — nearly double the January average of 78 centimetres.
In Saint John, nearly 100 centimetres of snow fell in the city, compared to the average of 64 centimetres.
Jill Maepea, a meteorologist at Environment Canada, said it is not uncommon to get stuck in a pattern like this.
“It’s often just the way weather patterns set up,” Maepea said in an interview.
“We don’t really know how these patterns are going to set up and sometimes they set up like this and it stays like this for several weeks.”
While January saw above-average snowfall totals in southern New Brunswick, Maepea said it is hard to say exactly what will happen in February.
She said the long-range forecast calls for above-normal precipitation in early February, then near-normal later in the month.
“Whether that’s snow or rain at that point, we really don’t know,” said Maepea.
“Long-range models aren’t very precise on exactly how much precip and also what types of precip.”
But she said we should see temperatures approach near or above normal toward mid-to-late February.
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