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June 30 or July 1 - the first recorded tornado in Canadian history, an F2, affected the Niagara Peninsula between Fonthill and Port Robinson, Ontario. It levelled houses and uprooted many trees. The tornado cut a path of trees in a west to east line from both communities that became known as "Hurricane Road", which still exists today. [3] [4] [5]
February 25: The temperature peaked at 15.1 °C in Windsor, Ontario, the highest temperature recorded in the whole of Canada in the whole of February 2002. March 26: An early Spring storm brought snow to much of southern Ontario, and some freezing rain to the St. Catharines/Hamilton area.
As of 2022 Canada was the world's 11th highest emitter of carbon dioxide (CO2) [57] [58] and as of 2021 the 7th highest emitter of greenhouse gases. [59] Canada has a long history of producing industrial emissions going back to the late 19th century.
On May 1, 1871, the new Dominion of Canada established the Meteorological Service of Canada by providing a $5000 grant to Professor G. T. Kingston of the University of Toronto to establish a network of weather observations. This information was collected and made available to the public from 1877 onwards.
2006 – Weather radar improved by adding common precipitation to it such as freezing rain, rain and snow mixed, and snow for the first time. 2007 – The Fujita scale is replaced with the Enhanced Fujita scale for National Weather Service tornado assessments. [83] 2010s – Weather radar dramatically advances with more detailed options. [specify]
Canada has one of the heaviest climate debts in the world, with a very long history of producing industrial greenhouse gas emissions. [13] As of 2021 Canada is the 10th heaviest cumulative emitter as assessed by model-based land-use mitigation measures, with 2.6% of cumulative emissions. [14]
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The Ontario Building Code [24] is administered by the Building and Development Branch of the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. [ 25 ] Prior to the enactment of the first Ontario Building Code Act in 1974, individual municipalities were responsible for developing their own building codes, resulting in a fragmented and potentially ...