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B.C.’s January was unusually warm, February was brutally cold and March is threatening to rewrite the record books for drought.

“There has been a lot of huge fluctuation,” said Armel Castellan, a meteorologist for Environment Canada.

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Fort St. John has received a minuscule 0.8 per cent of its normal precipitation.

“Just a trace has fallen,” he said. “They normally see 24 millimetres, which isn’t much, but this has been easily the driest March so far on record. It’s the same with Fort Nelson at only 1.1 per cent.”

Snowfalls on the coast — even though heavy at times — were not enough to tip the scales to normal through February and nothing changed in March.

Comox is decidedly droughty with just 4.4 per cent of its normal rainfall, and Victoria just 14.4 per cent.

“We are talking about a tiny amount of rain and snow in March for pretty much the entire province, the exception being Williams Lake,” he said.