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The frost line—also known as frost depth or freezing depth—is most commonly the depth to which the groundwater in soil is expected to freeze. The frost depth depends on the climatic conditions of an area, the heat transfer properties of the soil and adjacent materials, and on nearby heat sources.
The Canadian Arctic tundra is a biogeographic designation for Northern Canada's terrain generally lying north of the tree line or boreal forest, [2] [3] [4] that corresponds with the Scandinavian Alpine tundra to the east and the Siberian Arctic tundra to the west inside the circumpolar tundra belt of the Northern Hemisphere.
Canada, East Coast of the United States, Midwestern United States Part of the 2017–18 North American winter The December 2017–January 2018 North American cold wave was an extreme weather event in North America in which record low temperatures gripped much of the Central , Eastern United States , and parts of Central and Eastern Canada.
Canada, Central United States, Eastern United States, Northern Mexico Part of the 2020–21 North American winter The February 2021 North American cold wave was an extreme weather event that brought record low temperatures to a significant portion of Canada , the United States and parts of northern Mexico during the first two-thirds of February ...
The North American Ice Storm of 1998 (also known as the Great Ice Storm of 1998 or the January Ice Storm) was a massive combination of five smaller successive ice storms in January 1998 that struck a relatively narrow swath of land from eastern Ontario to southern Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in Canada, and bordering areas from northern New York to central Maine in the United States.
The warm front moved northeastward, affecting Quebec City, the southern Maritimes and New England, while precipitation became snow with a small amount of freezing rain during its progression. [ 4 ] On April 6, once it had passed through the warm sector of the depression that had reached northern Quebec, temperatures rose well above 0 °C, which ...
January 1994 was a month of extremes in Canada. Temperatures in the Yukon approached −50 °C (−58 °F). In Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, the temperature did not exceed −40 °C (−40 °F) for many days. In Windsor, Ontario, the coldest temperature since 1885 was recorded on January 19 at −29 °C (−20 °F).
The Penny Ice Cap, formerly Penny Icecap, [1] is a 6,000 km 2 (2,300 sq mi) ice cap in Auyuittuq National Park of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. It forms a 2,000 m (6,562 ft) high barrier on the Cumberland Peninsula, an area of deep fjords and glaciated valleys. It is a remnant of the Laurentide ice sheet.