Toronto, Montreal, and St. John’s also measured above-average snowfall in December. Kapuskasing, Ont., ended the month with a whopping 173 cm of snow on the ground.
Cold winds down, January thaw takes hold
The pattern that dominated Canada in December continued into the beginning of January, but a change is on the way.
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Winter will soon hit the pause button as mild Pacific air floods the country during the second week of the month. This should be the ‘January thaw’ that many folks look forward to every season.
A frigid trough will keep the season’s coldest air holed up over Alaska, allowing above-seasonal conditions to spread across most of Canada into the middle of January.
Winter plots its return into the second half of January
Don’t let the temporary warmup fool you. There are pretty strong signals that much of the country will flip back to a colder pattern for the second half of the month, potentially resembling what we saw in December.
Across the west, a ridge expected to build into the eastern Pacific and B.C. will bring a quieter pattern to the region for the second half of the month.