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The two major Canadian cities that fall outside the continental climate schema are Vancouver and Victoria. Vancouver experiences an oceanic climate, bordering warm-summer mediterranean with a marked summer dry season. Victoria, BC is the only major Canadian city entirely in a warm-summer mediterranean climate.
Province or Territory Record high temperature Date Place(s) Record low temperature Date Place(s) Alberta: 43.3 °C (110 °F) [1] July 21, 1931: Bassano Dam
Date British Columbia Ucluelet 489 1967-10 Yukon Quiet Lake 91 1972-7 Alberta Eckville 213 1970-6 Northwest Territories Fort Liard 100 1986-7 Saskatchewan Cypress Hill 193 1998-6 Nunavut Coral Harbour 128 1973-10 Manitoba Rivers 239 2020-6 Ontario Harrow 264 1989-7 Quebec Barrage des Quinze 172 1932-8 New Brunswick Alma 179 1962-5 Nova Scotia HRM
The trees will usually be in full bloom by late May and do not lose their leaves until early October. Winnipeg's growing season lasts from 25 May to 22 September; [25] and temperatures frequently hover in the mid to high twenties Celsius (77F to 86F). The city frequently gets thunderstorms during the summer, averaging 27 per season. [26]
Canada's wildfire season, which typically runs from May through September, got off to a devastating start very early this year. Wildfires scorched sweeping swaths of western Canada, including.
The 2023 fire season was mainly driven by anthropogenic climate change, with temperatures in Canada from May to October 2.2 °C (4 °F) higher than the 1991–2020 average. [24] Warmer and drier weather contributed to drought and desiccated vegetation, making it more flammable.
According to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center, about 19 million acres of land had burned by that date, easily eclipsing the previous record of 17.5 million acres set in 1995. In July ...
Canada has officially marked its worst wildfire season on record, with smoke from the blazes crossing the Atlantic Ocean and reaching western Europe on Monday.. Canada has had a dramatic start to ...