This February was one of the coldest on records and one thing that usually accompanies cold weather is snow. If you feel like this February really packed on the white stuff your not wrong. With the rest of the winter so far being quite mild the huge dumps we have seen can really make it feel like it is truly winter, and according to Environment Canadas Terri Lang, there has been a significant increase in precipitation over the same period last year.

"In January we saw 4.0 millimeters of precipitation, compare that to the previous January where we saw 2.8, so we actually got a little more this January. This February we got 16.2 compared to last February which saw 8.7 millimeters, one thing we do measure however very rudimentary is snow on the ground and current snow on the ground is around 23 centimeters compared to last year which was only 5 centimeters of snow on the ground for the same time. So we're starting out with a higher snowpack for sure, I think that has to do with how much snow would have melted during warmer periods, the previous year as well, because there were more warm bouts, where we haven't seen a warm bout in a very very long time, so if there was any loss of snowpack it would be due to sublimation."

One thing that might have stuck out over the last month was the teeth chattering winds that have been blowing through the province. While it may have seemed that February was windier than most Meteorologist Terri Lang says that's not entirely the case.

"Well we know that this February was the second coldest on record, we know that from the stats, so if people thought it was cold there absolutely right and of course with the cold comes windchills and you don't even need a lot of wind to create high wind chills. I think it had more to do with actual cold temperatures rather than the wind itself. We know over the past couple of days it's been quite windy, it hasn't even been that cold it's just in the wind that's giving us Lower temperatures."

With the winter slowly winding down and the spring slowly creeping around the corner i asked Terri lang for her predictions for April and beyond.

"Boy if i knew that i would be a very rich person. The long-range models that we base our seasonal forecasts on, they don't really have anything to hang there hat on this year to give an accurate confident forecast, so i think there kind of going with the status quo, they do think it might be a slightly colder spring but right now its still a little too early to tell."