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Truth or lie?
Technically true. Remember, Ontario is a large province, covering over a million square kilometers – stretching all the way to Hudson Bay.
This is exactly where the summer snow lies. Abnormally cold air will swirl around Hudson Bay this week, and that’s the main driver of our long weekend forecast.
By Tuesday morning, temperatures will be slightly above freezing, and by Wednesday morning they will fall a little closer to the shores of Hudson Bay. This means that at times the precipitation will fall like wet snow.
Daily highs on Tuesday afternoon will be close to 15 degrees below normal for parts of far northern Ontario.
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Snowfall is not expected to cause significant accumulation, but it is simply a reminder of how volatile the changing climate in northern Canada is. Extreme heat far exceeds extreme cold attacks at this latitude around the world.
This is far compared to the most recent heat waves and record ice melting in Hudson Bay.
You may just remember two years ago when this region recorded temperatures above 35 ° C and claimed national hotspot temperatures.
June 28, 2020: Fort Severn faces dangerous heat. On June 28, 2022, the same community faced the threat of a little wet snow.
Rare snow on CANADA DAY
Climate records are quite scarce when it comes to registering snowfall on Canada Day, but the largest recorded snowfall is 9.8 cm at the Kapuskasing weather station, including more than 3 cm falling at the airport.
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