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Metro Vancouver’s winter this year, the season that never seemed to end, still had a long way to go to enter record books as the coldest ever.

Vancouver International Airport recorded an average temperature between December and February of 2.2 degrees Celsius, a full two degrees below the 4.2 C degree normal, according to Matt MacDonald of Environment Canada.

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“When you get an average over three months of two degrees lower than normal, that’s significant,” he said.

Spring is still officially a week away but meteorologists consider winter to span the months of December, January and February.

This winter was the coldest on average since 1992-93, when the average was 1.7 C, and the 10th coldest since records were first kept in 1937.

The coldest winter was 1949-50, with an average of minus 0.2 C, followed by 1948-49 (0.3 C); 1968-69 (0.4 C); 1936-37 (0.7 C); 1992-93 and 1956-57 (tied at 1.7 C); 1971-72 and 1984-85 (tied at 1.8 C); and 1978-79 (2.0 C).