myth of the St. Patrick's Day storm. If you look at snowfalls in excess of 15 centimetres in a single day, you don't find many close to St. Patrick's Day in the last decade. Historian Dutch Thompson points out St. Patrick's Day is a traditionally a day for country folk to travel into towns for concerts. Not even in 1928 or 1938The last 10 years do not stand alone in their lack of St. Patrick's Day storms. "In that decade neither of the authors, Andrew MacLeod or John Scott Cairns, mentioned a storm on St. Patrick's Day."

Source: CBC News March 15, 2017 18:00 UTC