This week, the Sault Ste. Marie Public Library shares the highs and lows of winters throughout the history of the Sault
As we officially approach the winter season in Northern Ontario, there is one thing that we can be assured of – we will have snow!
The first record for the most snow on the ground was recorded in the winter of 1894 with a depth of 36.2 inches but eventually, this record was finally broken on March 16, 1959, when the city received 10.1 inches of snowfall during one storm, bringing the total snow on the ground to 39 inches. In March 1940, Arthur A. Piippo, from the Sault Michigan weather bureau provided the Sault Kiwanis Club with a summary of the “best and the worst” winters experienced in Sault Ste. Marie.
During the winter of 1898-99, the total snowfall was only 32.1 inches. Compare that total to the winter of 1933-34 when the total was 141.3 inches. With less than a week until Christmas, shoppers were struggling to get out and finish their Christmas shopping. Businesses and schools were closed, streets were impassable and city crews tried to keep roads open for emergency vehicles, but the snow just kept falling.
This historic winter snowstorm led the city to make national headlines and it became known as the Snow Capital of Canada for that year. Total snowfall for the winter of 1995-96 broke all the previous records with a total of 511 cm or 201 inches. A Sault Star article from Dec. 23, 1972, lists that the first recorded green Christmas occurred in 1888, followed by 1895, 1911, 1918, 1931, 1941 and 1952 and then it was a 20-year gap until the next one in 1972.
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