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Year Extreme maximum Extreme minimum Location Temperature Location Temperature 2024 Lytton, British Columbia: 42.5 °C (109 °F) Keg River, Alberta and Old Crow, Yukon: −51.5 °C (−61 °F) 2023 Lytton, British Columbia: 42.2 °C (108 °F) Rabbit Kettle, Northwest Territories: −53.4 °C (−64 °F) 2022 Lytton, British Columbia
Most of Canada has a continental climate, which features a large annual range of temperatures, cold winters, and warm summers. Daily average temperatures are near −15 °C (5 °F), but can drop below −50 °C (−58 °F) with severe wind chills. [1] In non-coastal regions, snow can cover the ground for almost six months of the year, while in ...
Coldest Month (Ave. Min.) ... Eureka, Nunavut: February 1979 Greatest precipitation in one year: 9,479 mm (373 ... List of extreme temperatures in Canada; Temperature ...
The coldest parts of Canada were the eastern prairie provinces, Ontario, Quebec, and the Northwest Territories. However, only southern Ontario set temperature records. During most of the early cold wave, Winnipeg was the coldest major city in Canada. On January 6, it reached a low of −37 °C (−35 °F), while on January 7, the low was −36 ...
For Sydney, the highest temperature ever recorded was 36.7 °C (98 °F) on August 18, 1935, [9] and the lowest was −31.7 °C (−25 °F) on January 31, 1873, [10] and January 29, 1877. [11] Lastly, for Kentville, the highest temperature recorded was 37.8 °C in August, 1944, [12] and the coldest temperature was -31.1 °C on February 19. [13]
Rising temperatures are most pronounced in western Canada and Alaska during the winter, where temperatures have risen by 3 to 4 °C (5.4 to 7.2 °F) during the last half century. In the northern Ellesmere Island region, the mean daily air temperature is merely above 0 °C (32 °F) from June until August, however during August 2008 the daily ...
Climate change is the result of greenhouse gas emissions, which are produced by human activity. Canada was the world's 7th largest greenhouse gas emitter in terms of GHG Inventory data, as of 2021. [5] In 2020, Canada emitted a total of 678 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (Mt CO 2 eq) into the atmosphere.
In late January 2019, a severe cold wave caused by a weakened jet stream around the Arctic polar vortex [5] hit the Midwestern United States and Eastern Canada, killing at least 22 people. [3][4] It came after a winter storm brought up to 13 inches (33 cm) of snow in some regions from January 27–29, and brought the coldest temperatures in ...