{"id":505991,"date":"2026-02-28T21:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/505991\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T21:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:11:10","slug":"446-cm-canadas-winter-saw-extreme-snows-and-bitter-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/505991\/","title":{"rendered":"446 cm: Canada\u2019s winter saw extreme snows and bitter cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img url=\"\/\/images.twnmm.com\/c55i45ef3o2a\/7GLAEZWZrdkDFbYtxbMY2J\/1b90eb9ce23398b5633672e36c92b376\/National_Winter_Wrap_2025-2026.png\" alt=\"National Winter Wrap 2025-2026\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;object-fit:contain;object-position:center center;color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/National_Winter_Wrap_2025-2026.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Every month this season witnessed a temperature of -50\u00b0C 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweathernetwork.com\/en\/news\/science\/earth-science\/canada-saw-an-impressive-70-degree-temperature-range-in-january\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">at least a 70-degree spread<\/a> between the lowest and highest readings.<\/p>\n<p>Farther east, the town of Kirkland Lake, Ont., measured its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweathernetwork.com\/en\/news\/weather\/severe\/43-7-c-ontario-town-records-its-coldest-temperature-in-42-years-kirkland-lake\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">coldest temperature in 42 years<\/a> when it saw a low of -43.7\u00b0C on Jan. 24.<\/p>\n<p><img url=\"\/\/images.twnmm.com\/c55i45ef3o2a\/6iMaL4CmKuHoejmZCkYT8j\/cdd811c4891369ecef3a59ca4f373904\/Atlantic_Canada_Hot_and_Cold_Winter_2025-2026.png\" alt=\"Atlantic Canada Hot and Cold Winter 2025-2026\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;object-fit:contain;object-position:center center;color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Atlantic_Canada_Hot_and_Cold_Winter_2025-2026.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Conditions grew quite chilly in the Atlantic provinces, as well. Edmundston, N.B., dropped to a bone-chilling -37.6\u00b0C on the morning of Jan. 25.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Edward Island saw the smallest temperature spread of any province or territory this season, with a 37.6-degree swing between the island\u2019s warmest and coldest winter readings.<\/p>\n<p>A historic snowstorm hit Canada\u2019s biggest city<\/p>\n<p>Many spots across Western Canada <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweathernetwork.com\/en\/news\/weather\/forecasts\/bcs-strange-and-stubborn-snow-drought-explained\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">missed out on their typical snows<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p><img url=\"\/\/images.twnmm.com\/c55i45ef3o2a\/4RvdENnbCzhmqNRVDfSq93\/e62bdea9ca7593c18318d820164c5488\/Toronto_Snowiest_Days_on_Record_2026.png\" alt=\"Toronto Snowiest Days on Record 2026\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;object-fit:contain;object-position:center center;color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Toronto_Snowiest_Days_on_Record_2026.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>But it was a different story back east.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every month this season witnessed a temperature of -50\u00b0C or colder, which is a rare feat to happen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44,132791,5097,104631,8864],"class_list":["post-505991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-polar-vortex","tag-temperatures","tag-wind-chill","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505991","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=505991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}