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Environment and Climate Change Canada is the federal department in charge of conserving and protecting Canada's water resources. The Water Act (2000), a federal legislation, "supports and promotes the conservation and management of water, including the wise allocation and use of water.". [6] The provinces are responsible for administering the ...
The Meteorological Service of Canada ( MSC; French: Service météorologique du Canada – SMC) is a branch of Environment and Climate Change Canada, which primarily provides public meteorological information and weather forecasts and warnings of severe weather and other environmental hazards. MSC also monitors and conducts research on the ...
Canada's greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 to 2016. Climate change is the result of greenhouse gas emission, which are produced by human activity. Canada is currently the world's 7th largest greenhouse gas emitter. [5] In 2018, of all the G20 countries, Canada was second only to Saudi Arabia for greenhouse gas emissions per capita. [6]
The Canadian weather radar network consists of 33 weather radars spanning Canada's most populated regions. Their primary purpose is the early detection of precipitation, its motion and the threat it poses to life and property. Each had until 2018 a range of 256 km (159 mi) in radius around the site to detect reflectivity, 3 angles with a range ...
Weatheradio Canada ( French: Radiométéo Canada) is a Canadian weather radio network owned and operated by Environment and Climate Change Canada 's Meteorological Service of Canada division. It is one of the two weather radio systems across North America, and is an official partner of the National Weather Service.
The Canadian Meteorological Centre ( CMC; French: Centre météorologique canadien ), located in Dorval, Quebec, is the branch of Environment Canada 's Meteorological Service of Canada that is tasked with providing forecast guidance to national and regional prediction centres, and is responsible for running the Global Environmental Multiscale ...
The following is a list of the most extreme temperatures recorded in Canada. Province or Territory. Record high temperature. Date. Place (s) Record low temperature. Date. Place (s) Alberta.
Nova Scotia lies in the mid- temperate zone, and although the province is almost surrounded by water, the climate is closer to continental climate rather than maritime climate. The temperature extremes of the continental climate are moderated by the ocean. Nova Scotia has frequent coastal fog and marked changeability of weather from day to day.