It’s been a snowy, blustery and bone-chilling winter for many Canadians. British Columbians were digging out of abnormal snow in early March.
The Prairies have seen a good dose of good old-fashioned winter, and extreme cold warnings were issued in Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic provinces as well.
Then there was the Christmas travel period thrown into chaos by winter storms – a huge mess from coast to coast. Read more: All of Alberta under extreme cold warning as Arctic air sweeps south One thing that points to all that cold weather is La Niña.
It’s a climate pattern that results in cooler ocean waters building up off the coast of Ecuador and Peru. That sets off a change to atmospheric conditions further north, resulting in cooler air over the west coast of North America, and drier air in the southern United States.