If you’re thinking that February has been snowier than you’d expect in Kamloops, you are correct.

Environment Canada shows the 13.8 cm of snow that fell in at the airport on Wednesday is comparable to 14 cm of snow that fell in the entire month of January.

“Any snowfall over 10 cm is a big number for us here anywhere in the Southwest dry belt and we still have a little more,” meteorologist Doug Lundquist told NL News.

He says the sudden increase in snow this week in the Kamloops area is not usual for this time of year, as the transition from warmer to colder air masses in the winter months is usually accompanied by an increase in snow, even in the valley bottom.

“There’s another storm headed our way that will give us perhaps another 5 cm plus or minus in the valley bottom, maybe 8 cm or so over higher terrain., noted Lundquist.

“Then we’re going to have a really dry period and warm weather with highs about 4 degrees plus or minus a couple of degrees all the way from Saturday through to Wednesday.”

He previously told NL News that the 13.8 cm of snow on Wednesday came close to a record, second only to the old record of 17.8 cm set in 1896, and ahead of the 10.7 cm of snow that fell on Feb 5, 1959.