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Although southern Ontario began 2023 in drought, the remainder of the winter eased the snow deficit. [26] Rainfall remained mostly normal until an atmospheric Rex block in May, which caused most regions to receive less than 5% of their normal rainfall. [27] [28] A few places recorded their driest May on record. [29]
Extreme Rainfall Location Maximum Daily Rainfall (mm) 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
Canadian precipitation patterns associated with the Southern Oscillation, Journal of Climate, 10, 3016–3027. Shabbar, A. and Khandekar, M. 1996. The impact of El Niño-Southern Oscillation on the temperature field over Canada, Atmosphere-Ocean, 34, 401–416.
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.
Climate data for Toronto WMO ID: 71266; coordinates ; elevation: 112.5 m (369 ft); 1991–2020 [a] normals, extremes 1840–present [b] Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year Record high humidex: 15.7 12.2 21.7 31.6 39.8 44.5
The payment of $388,288 CAD announced on June 8, 2010 represents the total federal share for this event." [48] An "extreme rainfall event that affected a large region of southern Ontario from Hamilton to Durham Region in August 2005 resulted in over $500,000,000 CAD in insured damages, $247,000,000 CAD of which was associated with sewer backup."
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3 January: the National Snow and Ice Data Center reported that Antarctic sea ice extent stood at the lowest in the 45-year satellite record—more than 500,000 square kilometers (193,000 square miles) below the previous record (2018), with four of the five lowest years for the last half of December having occurred since 2016.