‘It will feel like more of a typical winter for many people’
The national capital was blanketed under the first snowfall of the season on Wednesday, giving a snow globe effect to Parliament Hill as officials from Environment Canada presented a seasonal forecast for a winter that will feel more like a typical Canadian winter, despite above-normal temperatures.
Temperatures could be above-average in the rest of the country, especially in December, but that is expected to change by the end of the meteorological winter at the end of February in the Prairies and B.C.“The forecast is indicating a wetter-than-normal start to the season in December, both in the Western provinces and in the Northwest Territories and Yukon,” said Environment Canada research scientist Bill Merryfield.
That is leading to extremely warm sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic, officials said, while it’s dampening the effect of cooling patterns like La Niña on the Pacific coast.
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