01-25-2022, 12:41 AM
(01-24-2022, 08:45 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(01-24-2022, 08:29 PM)tomh009 Wrote: 15 cm might trigger a snow day for schools, but for the LRT, 30 cm is much more than twice as bad. Combine the train ground clearance with the excess snow being plowed onto the tracks, and you get a mess like we had now. At 15 cm we would have been OK, maybe even at 20 cm.
Generally also the rate matters.
I'm sure we've gotten 30cm of snow in a week many times in the last decade, but getting it in a 24 hour period (or even like 18 hours) is really quite a big more problematic.
Maybe. Typically, the snowiest month in Kitchener is January, with an average of 47 cm. Works out to 10.6 cm per week. We'd need 3 weeks worth of snow to get 30 cm in one week. But I am sure its happened.