| Victoria's climate is
reasonably temperate, with very few daily temperatures above 30°C
(86°F) or below 0°C (32°F). In January, the average
daily high and low temperatures are 6.9°C (44.4°F) and 0.7°C
(33.3°F), respectively. In July, Victoria enjoys considerably
warmer temperatures, averaging a daily high of 21.9°C (71.4°F)
and low of 10.8°C (51.4°F). The record daily high temperature
was 36.1°C (97.0°F) on July 16, 1941, and the record daily
low temperature was -15.6°C (3.9°F) on January 28, 1950.
Concerning precipitation, Victoria is fairly wet during the winter,
but suffers from several weeks of drought-like conditions during
the summer. In July, Victoria only receives an average of 19.5
mm (0.8 inch) of rain. In January, Victoria receives an average
of 121.8 mm (4.9 inches) of rain, but only an average of 15.2
cm (6.1 inches) of snow, a figure skewed by the Great Blizzard
of 1996, where Victoria was buried under 120 cm (4 feet) of snow
and received 64.5 cm (25.8 inches) of snow in one day. However,
with a mean snow depth of 1 cm in December and January only, Victoria
is called by many the "Land of No Snow", where people
phone up their relatives on the Prairies and in Ontario and Quebec
to make a joke about how they are digging themselves out of six
feet of snow while Victorians bike to work and play outdoor sports.
Also, given the demographics and cheaper living compared to Vancouver,
it has also been called the city of the "newly wed and nearly
dead".
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