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The spring that hasn't sprung: Prairie cold snap could last through April
Environment Canada’s senior climatologist says he’s surprised how long winter is lasting on the Prairies and warns cold temperatures could persist through the end of April.
David Phillips blames a polar vortex for the spring cold snap.
“At this time of the year, it’s often back and forth, up and coming, very yo-yoish kind of weather, where you’re getting winter trying to hold on and summer wants to get a foothold,” Phillips said Monday.
“And yet the war is being won by winter. Old Man Winter is clearly the bully in this particular situation and has got a grip on the entire West and is not letting go.”
Temperatures on the Prairies were still in the negative double digits Monday with lows reaching -27 C with the wind chill in parts of Saskatchewan and Manitoba. In southern Alberta, a snowfall warning was calling for up to 20 centimetres of the white stuff.
A typical temperature in Lethbridge, Alta., at this time of year is 11 C, Phillips said. It was -7 C Monday afternoon. Other parts of the Prairies were as much as 16 degrees below normal.
Phillips said the duration and intensity of cold the region is currently experiencing hasn’t been felt since 1970.
The spring that hasn't sprung: Prairie cold snap could last through April - CityNews Toronto
Environment Canada’s senior climatologist says he’s surprised how long winter is lasting on the Prairies and warns cold temperatures could persist through the end of April.
David Phillips blames a polar vortex for the spring cold snap.
“At this time of the year, it’s often back and forth, up and coming, very yo-yoish kind of weather, where you’re getting winter trying to hold on and summer wants to get a foothold,” Phillips said Monday.
“And yet the war is being won by winter. Old Man Winter is clearly the bully in this particular situation and has got a grip on the entire West and is not letting go.”
Temperatures on the Prairies were still in the negative double digits Monday with lows reaching -27 C with the wind chill in parts of Saskatchewan and Manitoba. In southern Alberta, a snowfall warning was calling for up to 20 centimetres of the white stuff.
A typical temperature in Lethbridge, Alta., at this time of year is 11 C, Phillips said. It was -7 C Monday afternoon. Other parts of the Prairies were as much as 16 degrees below normal.
Phillips said the duration and intensity of cold the region is currently experiencing hasn’t been felt since 1970.
The spring that hasn't sprung: Prairie cold snap could last through April - CityNews Toronto
Hot weather= Global warming
Cold weather= Global warming
How can you loose?
Heads or tails....both winner?
Cold weather= Global warming
How can you loose?
Heads or tails....both winner?
So this is not a unique occurrence and has happened in the past. For a minute I was thinking some weak mind might attribute it to global warming or something.
Three wood stoves in the cottage.
Git plumbing yet? Nothing worse that sitting on a frosty big.
LOL - it's called "climate change" happens all the time. Guess some people are just discovering that - huh! Who'd a thought?
Actually wood is considered a renewable fuel. That is because burning wood only does what nature does anyway. Left alone wood rots and returns to nature. Burning it simply speeds up the process, however, if trees are planted to replace those that are burned the result is a carbon neutral fuel.
It's climate change. More erratic weather due to global warming was predicted by scientists more that two decades ago. We've certainly had that in the last few years and this cool April is probably just one more.
I guess you skipped over the "global warming" phrase in my post. I'm not surprised it was over 30 words and your attention probably wandered.
No we haven't.
May 9, 1977.
20cm of snow in the Maritimes. In May.
I heard Boston got it really bad.
The 'more erratic weather" is just lies preying on people's limited attentions spans,
and the fact that it's more people have become much more soft and pudgy than anything else.
You want more erratic weather for your 'warming'.
Show me snow in Toronto in July.
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I guess you missed the three Category 5 Hurricanes in the Caribbean last year. And the five year California drought, followed by torrential downpours in 2016 - 2017. And then there was the odd case of the North Pole being warmer than the northern US and Southern Canada this winter. And just for fun there was the torrid summer experienced in the Mediterranean last summer with temperatures in Italy reach 45 degrees. Before you comment further on climate change you might want to do a little research.