FIND OUT WHICH PROVINCE OR
TERRITORY IS THE WINDIEST THE COLDEST OR THE
SUNNIETS AND MORE
Environmental Panorama
Toronto/Ontario – Canada
August of 2005
23/08/2005 - A new study
of who’s tops and who’s not in Canadian weather
has now been completed by Environment Canada’s
senior climatologist David Phillips.
This study analyzes Canada’s 13 provinces
and territories using over 30 years of weather
data, ranking them in 70 weather categories.
“Some of the results will be sure to surprise
you,” said David Phillips, author of the study.
This analysis is a follow-up to the highly
popular Weather Winners study that compared
100 largest cities in Canada in over 70 similar
weather categories, released in 2003. Likewise,
this new study of the provinces and territories
provides a wealth of information, which will
not only make for interesting dinner conversations
and provide bragging points for provincial
and territorial governments but will also
be useful to industry, the tourism and recreation
sector and for those seeking weather havens
for retirement or health purposes.
Hightlights:
• Nunavut came in first the most times in
the 70 weather categories, followed by Nova
Scotia and then Newfoundland and Labrador.
• Alberta is the province with the most comfortable
weather overall, while Nunavut has the toughest
weather, followed by Quebec.
• Ontario has the most thunderstorm days and
is also the province for “all seasons” where
weather-wise, they get a bit of everything!
• Nova Scotia is the province with the most
foggy days and is the wettest.
• Saskatchewan is the sunniest province year
round, but New Brunswick has the sunniest
winters.
• Quebec has the most snow days where British
Columbia has the fewest snow days annually
and the warmest springs.
• Ontario does not have the hottest summer,
but it’s no mystery that Nunavut has the coldest
winters, followed by the Northwest Territories
and the Yukon Territory.
• Prince Edward Island has the most freezing
rain days and the most humid summers.
• Manitoba has the clearest skies year-round.
To find out more regarding which province
or territory can lay claim to being the windiest,
the wettest, having the warmest summer or
coldest weather year round, visit the Weather
Winners website at: http://www.on.ec.gc.ca/weather/winners/provincial-territorial-home-e.html
The data used for this study comes from Environment
Canada’s National Climate Data and Information
Archive website. This website consists of
a collection of over 200 million weather observations
from over 7,000 sites, some dating as far
back as 1840: http://www.climate.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/Welcome_e.html
For more information about Environment Canada’s
Meteorological Weather Service and to obtain
the latest weather forecasts and severe weather
warnings, please visit: http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/canada_e.html.
Source:
Inquiry Centre Environment Canada (http://www.ec.gc.ca)
Press consultantship (David Phillips)
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