Have you ever considered moving to the UK? The weather is quite temperate and I've never needed to shovel a drive or hire a vehicular protection shelter. They speak mostly English and the food has improved enormously. I think you'd like it.

A January month of winter in Vancouver
It's rained 24 out of 29 days so far this month.
It sucks:' Vancouver reacts to seemingly endless rain
'It sucks:' Vancouver reacts to seemingly endless rain - British Columbia - CBC News Multimedia

It's been an unpleasant month for sure. I was pretty much giving up on having a shift where rain gear wasn't needed. (rain gear sucks to work in, very warm.)

Glad I got to have 9 days of rain free fun in So. California though.

I have yet to see any figures but snow-wise I'd say this is our least snowy winter in my time. This is my 13th. It's been very cold for more longer periods than usual.

Of course, February hits this week and we generally get more than half winter's snow from now on. But that won't be hard this time.
Before it began snowing today there was barely any snow on the ground, just the odd patch.

You've had 132cm this winter, about 10cm less than us. We're about 30cm down on this time of year last year but if February and March do what they did last year, we should pass the average total of 220cm.

What gets me this January is the wild fluctuations in temperature. Anywhere from +12 to -28. We've had 10 days above zero and eight below -20

We've had similar fluctuations - although not with the extremes of course. Monday night through Tuesday morning we had 18cm of snow and ice pellets, then some freezing rain then actual rain and drizzle through to this morning. It's currently +7 but by evening it will be -4. No idea how much snow we've had in Jan but really only one big (30cm) storm. It's certainly been milder and wetter than any January I can remember. I'm sure February and March will remind us that winter is not done yet though.

You had 63.8cm in January, as of yesterday.

132? That's a shock. That would make it about normal by now then with another 150 to come. Really doesn't seem like it.

I can never find a source that gives snowfall amounts by the winter. They all seem to be Jan-Dec.

It's often hard to take any real meaning from the official total figures and even individual ones sometimes. Like once when they said 10cm fell and I was shovelling more than knee deep and not just from drifting.

Our winter average is supposed to be 282cm but I remember reading it's been several years since we had one that low. There was one winter when judging by how little I had to go out and shovel and how little was on the drive compared to normal that I was convinced we'd had less than half the usual amount but the paper gave out normal amounts.

You can get very detailed numbers here.

https://weather.gc.ca/canada_e.html

Just click on the city, or province and then pick the location. When you have your location, scroll down to the bottom to the historical bit. It'll tell you all you want to know. You can even download the data to a spreadsheet, if you are that sad (like me).

Thanks...I'm not seeing it by the winter though. It seems you can do it by the month/year and then make your own winter record. I'm interested but not that interested. If so many resources can give month by month and then the total of Jan to Dec, why can't they give the total for Nov to April (or Nov to Oct, effectively the same thing)?

A few years ago when we had that ridiculous winter - the one where people posted videos of the snow at the top of the doors - almost day by day the paper was carrying reports about whether we'd reach the previous record for a winter so there must be some interest.

The one that really gets my goat is where a report tells you what the highest and lowest temperature was for "today"...the highest might be 31/1/53 and the lowest 31/1/92. So bloody what? That tells you nothing of any use.

The easiest way to get data, is set up your own weather station. While some data for snow is reliable, it's pretty pointless when the data comes from the mountains or a location 50km away.

I think it comes from the airport here, 10km away.

How to measure snowfall is always a difficult subject. Naturally an airport will also have less snow if you have to keep a runway clear and I doubt they actually really make an effort to measure the area with most lying snow. Measuring rain is obviously a lot easier as you can use a rain gauge.

I have no idea how accurate it would be at any given time but I assume that Environment Canada would require some standard be kept to and so long as the method used is consistent, it should at least be accurate for comparison purposes.

Where are you getting that from? I did look on Env Canada but couldn't obviously find that data.