{"id":547806,"date":"2026-03-19T23:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/547806\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T23:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:47:10","slug":"vancouver-nears-first-snowless-winter-in-43-years-as-temperatures-hit-record-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/547806\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver nears first snowless winter in 43 years as temperatures hit record books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may finally be safe to take the winter tires off your vehicles, because the chances of Vancouver receiving any snow this season are looking mighty slim.<\/p>\n<p>Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) told Daily Hive that Vancouver is about to experience its first no-snow winter in 43 years.<\/p>\n<p>When the spring equinox occurs on Friday, March 20, it will be the first time that Vancouver goes snow-free since 1982-1983.<\/p>\n<p>ECCC meteorologist Brian Proctor explained that while locals did see some flakes recently, it didn\u2019t happen where it counts: at Vancouver International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>An official snowfall at YVR must be one centimetre of accumulation in order to be counted by the weather station.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Vancouver weather\" title=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2250066\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/sunshine-vancouver-1024x683.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2250066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shawn.ccf\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVancouver did receive trace accumulation once each on Feb. 20, March 10, and March 15,\u201d explained Proctor. \u201cHowever, all three measurements were effectively unmeasurable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked why YVR\u2019s weather station was the arbiter on whether the city experienced a snow-free winter, Proctor explained that it all goes back to a period of record and the reliability of measurements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYVR is the most reliable in the Vancouver area,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"vancouver travel\" title=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2132792\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/vancouver-westjet-travel-halifax-route-1024x683.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2132792\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryken Papy\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/vancouver\/warm-weather-bc-temperature-records\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Several cities across the province broke temperature records this winter<\/a>, including two spots that shattered 96-year-old records.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver itself is about to conclude its second-warmest winter on record since 1897, with a mean temperature of six degrees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe normal mean is 4.3 degrees, so we would classify this as warm,\u201d added Proctor.<\/p>\n<p>Several other B.C. cities also experienced a warmer-than-average winter season, with the weather stations in Abbotsford and Downtown Victoria measuring the respective cities as the fourth warmest on record.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"victoria bc\" title=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2182533\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/shutterstock_763591591-1024x768.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2182533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">pr2is\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll want to keep your umbrellas nearby, as the Vancouver weather forecast is calling for lots more rain thanks to a prolonged atmospheric river.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/vancouver\/atmospheric-river-metro-vancouver-rainfall-warning-fraser-valley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ECCC has issued an orange warning\u00a0for rainfall in parts of Metro Vancouver<\/a>. The Fraser Valley Regional District has also issued a state of local emergency for Electoral Area E, which is southeast of the Chilliwack area.<\/p>\n<p>While there\u2019s a chance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/environment-climate-change.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ECCC<\/a>\u2019s rainfall warning could be expanded, right now it has been issued for Metro Vancouver, northeast, including Coquitlam and Maple Ridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It may finally be safe to take the winter tires off your vehicles, because the chances of Vancouver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-547806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}