With just a few days until Halloween, I thought I’d take a quick look back at Halloween’s past to see the scary truth about our late-October weather trends.
It shouldn’t shock you to know that our weather is usually cool and wet on October 31st.
Here are your Halloween weather statistics for Victoria, based on the past 10 years of climate data collected by Environment Canada at YYJ.
6 out of 10 times we get some rain on Halloween. 90% of the time temperatures stay above freezing. 4 out of the last 10 years, Trick-or-treaters have been outside in temperatures warmer than 8°C.
Highest temperature: 18.9°C 1954
Lowest temperature: -3.1°C 2002
Normal High: 11°C
Normal Low: 5°C
YEAR HIGH LOW PRECIP
2013 10.8 8.6 2.4mm
2012 11.7 9.2 14.8mm
2011 12.4 2.7 0.0mm
2010 13.1 3.4 2.2mm
2009 13.5 3.9 1.6mm
2008 12.7 9.4 4.6mm
2007 9.8 2.5 0.2mm
2006 7.7 -2.6 0.0mm
2005 12.4 9.1 10.4mm
2004 12.6 0.2 0.00mm