‘or *For the 2005 Tacoma 4x4 Access Cab V6, UU42NP{A) Monthly Lease payments of $359 based on 48-month wa Al 2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 19, 2005 ity sets records for © cold and lack of snow By MARGARET SPEIRS * TERRACE reached a record low ‘temperature last week, close to the coldest January day on record. : On Jan. 13, thermometers dropped toa frigid -22.2 C, a full degree below the previous record low of 21. 1 C set in 1969. And that wasn’t far from the cold- est January day on record, -25. C, on Jan. 1, 1969. The warmest Jans 13'was 44.9.C, setin 1982, ~~ Terrace has so far experienced 10.5 cm of snow,‘most of which fell on Jan 1Oand 11. The city has a ways to go to seta record for most snow inthe first month ‘of the year. . “ _ The snowiest January on record was 272.6 cm, or nine feet, set in 1989. The minimum Was a trace of ‘snow in 1981. “All it takes is one or two. good storms and you’ re right up “there in your maximum,” said Bill Miller, weather service specialist for “Envi- ronment Canada Client Services, last Friday. Miller: said a cold warning is out for Terrace right now due.to “inflows coming through the mountains: . | He “predicted heavy winds blow- ing in the.range of 50 km per hour and- higher for the beginning of this week, although he said temperatures would be warmer. ,. Terrace’s weather was balmy com- pared to the -47 C and -+H OC Miller experienced in Whitehorse last Thurs- day and Friday.” Terrace also hit a record low for snowfall in December, a month that shaped up to be one of the mildest De- cembers in decades. Just over 35 cm of snow fell in Ter race, compared to altwo- decade low of +4 em in 1989. The average December temperature is just below freezing. according to statistics from Environment Canada. The coldest December in the past : two decades was in 1996, when the average lemperature was -7.4 C. sx’ The warmest. December was in 1991. when the temperature hovered a degree above 0C. Though Terrace didn't top the 326 mm of rain that fell in December 1991, the amount of rain that fell, over 160 mm, was well above the two-decade low of 4mm in 1996. ° December's total precipitation was 202 mm, compared to the driest in wo decades, 76 mm, in December 1985 and the wettest, 471 mm, in De- cember 199], RCMP here to get new staff sergeant COMING SOON, there’ i be a new ‘staf f sergeant in town. . “Eric Stubbs, currently the: detach- ment commander for the Queen Char- lotte Islands RCMP, is being promoted . to Staff:Sgt: and moving to Terrace in place of Jas Basi, who’s moving to Sur- ey: to head the lower mainland detach- ment. Stubbs will be second in command to Inspector Degrand, who is already. pleased with the new officer. “He. comes ° highly recommended from the district,” Degrand said. ““f’ve heard nothing but very posi- tive things coming in. I'm certain he’ll live up to that.” ~ Degrand said he’s spoken to Stubbs, who was very: bright, very” articulate and very well spoken. ° Degrand said Basi, who will .be leaving in March, will be missed. le if be hard to replace Jas,” he said. Drinking driving warnings heeded DRIVERS » in the northwest are: o fistening to’ road safety. warnings and ° _ improving their. behaviour on the highway. _° That’s ‘the. word from Terrace RCMP Sgt. Don Murray,. who. com- piled highway statistics for the 2004 holiday season. .From Dec. 3, 2004 to Jan. 2, 2005, police arrested four motorists for im- paired driving, impounded three vehi- cles, issued 24-hr driving’ prohibitions to'22 people, seized drugs from séven. individuals and issued | 152 violation 7 “ ab” ‘tickets for speeding, speeding relative | ‘to road conditions, not wearing a seat- belt and failing to stop for red lights or stop signs. Several checkstops set “up in the area. stopped drivers, and” officers found exactly what they like lo see.’ . “What we saw was a large number of ‘designated drivers and a Jarge num- ber of. folks who said ‘If I drive e, Pm » not drinking, ve While Murray: didn’t have the. ex, , 299 Murray said. “act number of designated drivers and _non-drinking ’ drivers, he said officers rice is $44,205. ***Fi rfor more details. , $1,380 for 2005 4Runner SR5 V6. Down payment, first payment - 000 km over 48 months. 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