Canadian Gardening: Last Years Winter Weather Report, 1 by Lilypon

Lilypon wrote:
released Saturday, January 6, 2007 @ CBC News

Yes, it's been the warmest Canadian winter on record

Last Updated: Monday, March 13, 2006 | 4:34 PM ET
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It isn't final proof that the world is heating up, but federal climatologists say this has been the warmest Canadian winter since nationwide record-keeping began in 1948.

* INDEPTH: Climate Change

"Statistically, in an unchanging climate, Canada could expect a winter anomaly like this winter's about every 100 years," Environment Canada reported on Monday in its Climate Change and Variations bulletin.

And, with the exception of the springs of 2002 and 2004, temperatures have been stuck above normal for eight years, it said.

Other findings:

# This winter's preliminary figures show temperatures averaging 3.9 C above normal.
# That makes it not just the warmest winter but the most overheated season – winter, spring, summer or fall – on record.
# The weather has been even more unseasonable in some places than in others.

* FROM JAN. 24, 2006: NASA calls 2005 the warmest year in a century

Winter temperatures have been above normal across Canada, the report says, with most of the country at least 2 C above normal and with Alberta, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories all experiencing temperatures greater than 6 C above normal.

The winter figures in the report are for December, January and February rather than the customary Dec. 21-March 20 span.

Warm and warmer: areas of above-normal temperature in the winter of 2005-06. (Courtesy: Environment Canada)


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