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Table 15.1 Weather conditions, selected urban centres
[an error occurred while processing this directive]11-402-x[an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive]| Extreme maximum temperature | Extreme minimum temperature | Rainfall1 | Snowfall1,2 | Precipitation2,3 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| degrees Celsius | year | degrees Celsius | year | millimetres | centimetres | millimetres | |
| St. John's | 31.5 | 1983 | -23.8 | 1986 | 1,191.0 | 322.3 | 1,513.7 |
| Charlottetown | 34.4 | 1944 | -30.5 | 1982 | 880.4 | 311.9 | 1,173.3 |
| Halifax | 35.0 | 1995 | -28.5 | 1993 | 1,238.9 | 230.5 | 1,452.2 |
| Saint John | 34.4 | 1976 | -36.7 | 1948 | 1,147.9 | 256.9 | 1,390.3 |
| Fredericton | 37.2 | 1975 | -37.2 | 1962 | 885.5 | 276.5 | 1,143.3 |
| Québec | 35.6 | 1953 | -36.1 | 1962 | 923.8 | 315.9 | 1,230.3 |
| Sherbrooke | 34.0 | 2002 | -41.2 | 2004 | 873.9 | 294.3 | 1,144.1 |
| Trois-Rivières | 36.1 | 1975 | -41.1 | 1976 | 858.6 | 241.4 | 1,099.8 |
| Montréal | 35.6 | 1955 | -37.2 | 1933 | 819.7 | 220.5 | 1,046.2 |
| Ottawa | 37.8 | 1944 | -36.1 | 1943 | 732.0 | 235.7 | 943.5 |
| Kingston | 34.3 | 1983 | -34.5 | 1981 | 794.6 | 181.0 | 968.4 |
| Oshawa | 36.5 | 1988 | -30.5 | 1981 | 759.5 | 118.4 | 877.9 |
| Toronto | 38.3 | 1948 | -31.3 | 1981 | 684.6 | 115.4 | 792.7 |
| Hamilton | 37.4 | 1988 | -30.0 | 2004 | 764.8 | 161.8 | 910.1 |
| St. Catharines | 37.4 | 1988 | -25.7 | 1979 | 745.7 | 136.6 | 873.6 |
| London | 38.2 | 1988 | -31.7 | 1970 | 817.9 | 202.4 | 987.1 |
| Windsor | 40.2 | 1988 | -29.1 | 1994 | 805.2 | 126.6 | 918.3 |
| Sudbury | 38.3 | 1975 | -39.3 | 1982 | 656.5 | 274.4 | 899.3 |
| Thunder Bay | 40.3 | 1983 | -41.1 | 1951 | 559.0 | 187.6 | 711.6 |
| Winnipeg | 40.6 | 1949 | -45.0 | 1966 | 415.6 | 110.6 | 513.7 |
| Regina | 43.3 | 1937 | -50.0 | 1885 | 304.4 | 105.9 | 388.1 |
| Saskatoon | 40.6 | 1988 | -50.0 | 1893 | 265.2 | 97.2 | 350.0 |
| Calgary | 36.1 | 1919 | -45.0 | 1893 | 320.6 | 126.7 | 412.6 |
| Edmonton | 34.9 | 2002 | -48.3 | 1938 | 365.7 | 123.5 | 476.9 |
| Abbotsford | 37.9 | 2007 | -21.1 | 1950 | 1,507.5 | 63.5 | 1,573.2 |
| Vancouver | 33.3 | 1960 | -17.8 | 1950 | 1,154.7 | 48.2 | 1,199.0 |
| Victoria | 36.1 | 1941 | -15.6 | 1950 | 841.4 | 43.8 | 883.3 |
| Whitehorse | 34.4 | 1969 | -52.2 | 1947 | 163.1 | 145.0 | 267.4 |
| Yellowknife | 32.5 | 1989 | -51.2 | 1947 | 164.5 | 151.8 | 280.7 |
| Iqaluit | 26.1 | 2003 | -45.6 | 1967 | 198.3 | 235.8 | 412.1 |
| 1. Annual average. | |||||||
| 2. On average, one centimetre of snow equals one millimetre of rain. | |||||||
| 3. Totals may not add up because of different densities of snow. | |||||||
| Source: Environment Canada, National Climate Data and Information Archives. | |||||||
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