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Here's your first stat. This graph shows every single annual hot spot in Canada since 1900.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid= ... 333335&z=5

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  • Some of them are questionable. eg. All three Greenwood figures.
    Weather stations come and go,
EDIT: Some SHOCKING stats!
  • Warfield was the Canadian hot spot for the first time ever 2019.
  • Lytton hasn't been the Canadian hotspot since 2013. That's 7 years ago!
  • Oosyoos hasn't been the Canadian hotspot since 2002! That's 17 years ago!
  • Lillooet hasn't been the Canadian hotspot since 1972!!! That's 47 years ago!
  • Kitmat is the northernmost and westernmost place to be the Canadian hot spot.
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I'm working on correcting the weather extremes in Canada.

What do you think? Goose?
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Glacier wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2019 9:34 am I'm working on correcting the weather extremes in Canada.

What do you think? Goose?
Let me check and I'll answer you this weekend. ;)
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Okay, Goose would like some Quebec spots, so let me add some more. Remember that Old Crow is so far north that it goes ZERO energy from the sun in December. In other words, the diurnal temperature variation is entirely due to cold fronts and warm fronts passing through, which produces much higher variations than Penticton and Vancouver where there is enough energy from the sun to actually warm the temperature during the day.
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Glacier wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2019 9:34 am I'm working on correcting the weather extremes in Canada.

What do you think? Goose?
First of all, I don't trust old readings (≈ before 1945) because weather screens were very different. They were often "opened", like this one.

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That doesn't mean it was not very hot or very cold, but there was probably an overestimate (1C to 2C according to weather experts).

Here are the provincial records that I consider pretty reliable (not sure obviously).
Of course, after that, we should check each station to see the location (as we did for BC, with a lot of [bad] surprises...).
Unfortunately, this is not possible for each station (a lot of them doesn't exist anymore).

Alberta:

41.7C in Empress, on Aug 5, 1961.
-60.6C in Fort Vermilion, on Jan 11, 1911 [dubious].

British Columbia:

44.4C in Lytton and Lillooet, on July 16 & 17, 1941 [likely].
-58.9C in Smith River, on Jan 31, 1947.

NB: There would be an astonishing reading of -71 near Fort Nelson in January 1982.
https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... h_Columbia

Manitoba:

44.4C in Emerson and St. Albans, on July 11 & 12, 1936 [likely].
-52.8C in Norway House, on Jan 9, 1899 [likely]; -51.7C in Brochet, on Feb 22, 1966.

New Brunswick:

39.4C in Nepisiguit Falls, Rexton and Woodstock, on Aug 18, 1935 [likely].
-44.4C in Sussex, on Jan 15, 1957 [likely].

Newfoundland & Labrador:

38.3C in North West River, on July 6, 1921 [likely].
-51.2C in Esker, on Feb 17, 1973.

Northwest Territories:

36.7C in Yohin, on July 13, 2014 [39.4C in Fort Smith on July 18, 1941 is probably unreliable].
-57.2C in Fort Smith, on Dec 26, 1917 [likely]; -56.7C in Inuvik, on Feb 4, 1968 [-59.4C in Fort Resolution in Jan 1936 is unreliable].

Nova Scotia:

38.3C in Collegeville, on Aug 19, 1935 [likely].
-41.1C in Upper Stewiacke, on Jan 31, 1920 [likely].

Nunavut:

34.9C in Kugluktuk [Coppermine], on July 15, 1989.
-57.8C in Shepherd Bay, on Feb 13, 1973.

Ontario:

42.2C in Atikokan, on July 11 & 12, 1936 and 42.2C in Fort Frances, on July 13, 1936 [likely]; Biscotasing reading is an error.
-51.7C in White River, on Jan 23, 1935 [likely].

Prince Edward Island:

36.7C in Charlottetown, on Aug 19, 1935 [likely].
-37.2C in Kilmahumaig, on Jan 26, 1884 [very old reading]; -37.0C in Bangor, on Feb 7, 1993.

Quebec:

40.0C in La Tuque, on Aug 1, 1975.
-52.0C in Riviere Kinojevis, on Jan 18, 1982.

Saskatchewan:

43.9C in Midale, on July 5, 1936 [likely]. I don't believe in the 45.0C of Midale and Yellow Grass.
-56.7C in Prince Albert, on Feb 1, 1893 [very old reading]; -55.0C in Butte St Pierre, on Jan 25, 1972.

Yukon:

36.5C in Mayo Road, on June 25, 2004.
-63.0C in Snag, on Feb 3, 1947.
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The stats here are a bit messed up. It rain a lot this summer, and yet it says Vernon had NO RAIN!
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Here's another couple stats...

Vancouver (YVR) hasn't recorded a January snowfall above 1cm since 2012. Also haven't dipped below -10C in Jan since 2004.
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Canada’s top 10 weather stories of 2019: https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-cl ... /2019.html
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January stats for Vancouver.

Last temp below -5C...Jan 14, 2017
Last temp below -8C...Jan 4, 2017
Last temp below -10C...Jan 5, 2004
Last temp below -12C...Jan 4, 2004
Last temp below -14C...Jan 6, 1993

Last monthly mean temp below 1.5C...1993
Last monthly mean temp below 1C...1993
Last monthly mean temp below 0.5C...1993
Last monthly mean temp below 0C...1993
Last monthly mean temp below -0.5C...1969

Last daily snowfall above 2cm...Jan 12, 2011
Last daily snowfall above 10cm...Jan 12, 2011
Last daily snowfall above 15cm...Jan 27, 2002
Last daily snowfall above 20cm...Jan 27, 2002
Last daily snowfall above 25cm...Jan 13, 1971

Last monthly snowfall above 10cm...2011
Last monthly snowfall above 20cm...2002
Last monthly snowfall above 30cm...2002
Last monthly snowfall above 40cm...1991
Last monthly snowfall above 50cm...1982
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Using Kamloops as a reference, 2019 is one of the rainiest years on record if you count number of rain days. Also, it was one of the driest on record if you count total precipitation. Interesting stuff.
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Coldest daytime highs in Vancouver history (1898-present)

1. -11.1C January 13th 1950 & December 29th 1968
2. -10.6C January 7th, 1909, January 14th, 1950, January 24th, 1950 & December 28th, 1968
3. -10.0C January 21st, 1943 & December 16th, 1964
4. -9.4C January 17th, 1950
5. -8.9C January 13th, 1911 & December 30th, 1968
6. -8.7C November 27th, 1985
7. -8.3C January 8th, 1909, January 12th, 1911, January 22nd, 1943 & January 2nd, 1950
8. -7.7C November 26th, 1985
9. -7.8C January 15th, 1950, January 16th, 1950 & January 28th, 1969
10. -7.6C December 28th, 1996
11. -7.5C December 29th, 1990
12.-7.2C February 13th, 1923, January 18th, 1935, January 18th, 1950, December 31st, 1951 & January 27th 1969
13. -7.0C February 2nd, 1989 & December 21st, 1990
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