{"id":460269,"date":"2026-02-07T19:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/460269\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T19:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:20:11","slug":"canadas-2025-26-winter-report-card-did-your-province-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/460269\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s 2025-26 winter report card: Did your province pass?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a report card grading on a classic, harsh Canadian winter (so far)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Spoiler alert: You\u2019ve only earned an A if you actually felt winter.<\/p>\n

DON’T MISS: A major mid-month pattern change will sweep Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s average winter grade: B<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s winter GPA: 2.95<\/p>\n

British Columbia: D<\/p>\n

When the Grouse Grind opens in February, you know coastal B.C. never really had a winter.<\/p>\n

\"B.C.<\/p>\n

B.C. temperature anomaly past 60 days<\/p>\n

Temperature signal: Vancouver is on pace for the warmest winter on record (+2\u00b0C anomaly)\/<\/p>\n

Persistent Pacific ridging and a parade of atmospheric rivers has meant warmth and rain instead of snow along the coast.<\/p>\n

The Interior saved the province from a failing grade, with snowpack maintaining resilience inland, but most of the province reported a temperature fever.<\/p>\n

\"Vancouver<\/p>\n

Vancouver airport snowfall 2025-26 winter<\/p>\n

Snowfall<\/p>\n

Vancouver: 0 cm (26 cm normal) or zero per cent<\/p>\n

Coastal snowpack repeatedly wiped out.<\/p>\n

Prairies: B<\/p>\n

A wildly split winter so far. Warm west and a cold east. Chinooks dominated southern Alberta while bitter cold hammered Saskatchewan and Manitoba at times.<\/p>\n

\"Western<\/p>\n

Western Canada winter 2025-26 temperatures<\/p>\n

You can literally see B.C.\u2019s ridge bleeding east, warming Alberta and parts of southern Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n

Snowfall check-in:<\/p>\n

Edmonton: 72 cm (176 per cent of normal)–a major overachiever<\/p>\n

Calgary: 23 cm (70 per cent of normal)<\/p>\n

\"Western<\/p>\n

Western Canada winter 2025-26 snowfall<\/p>\n

Balanced out, you\u2019ve earned a B.<\/p>\n

Ontario: A<\/p>\n

Ontario has been Canada\u2019s snow magnet. Cold locked in. Snow came frequently. And this was the quintessential Canadian winter experience.<\/p>\n

In fact, southern Ontario wracked up the greatest number of consecutive days below freezing since 2015!<\/a><\/p>\n

Temperature signal:<\/p>\n

Toronto: -5.3\u00b0C (coldest since 2018) Multiple lobes of the Hudson Bay polar vortex dropped south.<\/p>\n

\"Eastern<\/p>\n

Eastern Canada snowfall winter 2025-26<\/p>\n

Snowfall:<\/p>\n

Toronto: 132 cm (236 per cent of normal), the biggest anomaly in Canada<\/p>\n

Kenora: 84 cm (131 per cent)<\/p>\n

And in the snowbelts? Totals measured in metres<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Quebec: A-<\/p>\n

Cold, sometimes stormy, reliably wintry, just shy of an A.<\/p>\n

Temperature signal:<\/p>\n

Montreal -8.9\u00b0C (coldest since 2018)<\/p>\n

Quebec is locked into the eastern flank of the Hudson Bay trough and Arctic air.<\/p>\n

\"Eastern<\/p>\n

Eastern Canada temperatures 2025-26 so far<\/p>\n

Warmer across central and northern Quebec, keeping you from an A.<\/p>\n

Snowfall:<\/p>\n

Montreal: 121 cm (121 per cent of normal)<\/p>\n

These are strong winter vibes, but absolutely not on Ontario\u2019s level of snow supremacy.<\/p>\n

Atlantic Canada: B<\/p>\n

Stormy, snowy sections, but snow-starved central Maritimes are dragging your grade down.<\/p>\n

St. John\u2019s: 199 cm (120 per cent)<\/p>\n

Halifax: 110 cm (112 per cent)<\/p>\n

Moncton: 111 cm (83 per cent)<\/p>\n

Charlottetown: 44.1 cm (32 per cent): One of the larger snow deficits in Canada.<\/p>\n

Northern Canada: B<\/p>\n

The only thing holding you back from an A is the exceptional temperature anomaly across Baffin Island and Nunavut.<\/p>\n

\"Iqaluit,<\/p>\n

Iqaluit, Nvt., winter warmth 2026<\/p>\n

Temperature signal:<\/p>\n

Iqaluit: +7.2\u00b0C anomaly, warmest since 2011<\/p>\n

Whitehorse: -4.4\u00b0C colder than normal, coldest since 2009<\/p>\n

Yellowknife: -26.1\u00b0C (coldest since 2022)<\/p>\n

Snowfall:<\/p>\n

Yellowknife: 52 cm (116 per cent)<\/p>\n

There you have it.<\/p>\n

A respectable interim report card, with a few more weeks of winter to go. Watch for some grade deductions in the final weeks as a thaw spreads across Eastern Canada through the heart of February<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is a report card grading on a classic, harsh Canadian winter (so far). Spoiler alert: You\u2019ve only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3918,49,48,188193,44,174447],"class_list":["post-460269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-atlantic-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-winter","tag-news","tag-report-card"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}