Every month this season witnessed a temperature of -50°C or colder, which is a rare feat to happen even once in a winter. The extreme cold we saw across Northern Canada helped give each month at least a 70-degree spread between the lowest and highest readings.
Farther east, the town of Kirkland Lake, Ont., measured its coldest temperature in 42 years when it saw a low of -43.7°C on Jan. 24.
Conditions grew quite chilly in the Atlantic provinces, as well. Edmundston, N.B., dropped to a bone-chilling -37.6°C on the morning of Jan. 25.
Prince Edward Island saw the smallest temperature spread of any province or territory this season, with a 37.6-degree swing between the island’s warmest and coldest winter readings.
A historic snowstorm hit Canada’s biggest city
Many spots across Western Canada missed out on their typical snows this season. Vancouver International Airport made it the entire season without any measurable snowfall. Calgary saw just 80 per cent of its normal snowfall between December and February.
But it was a different story back east.