Top Ten Coldest Canadian Cities in Winter

Liz Osborn CurrentResults.com

Winnipeg, Manitoba has the coldest winter weather of any major Canadian city. It ranks first for the lowest average temperatures. Winnipeg also is Canada's city that most often drops to -30 degrees Celsius (-22 degrees Fahrenheit) or below and it is least likely to have a day above freezing during winter.

Other Prairie cities along with several in Ontario and Quebec round out the lists of Canada's coldest in winter.

The tables below list the major Canadian cities that rank for the lowest maximum and minimum temperature averages, the fewest freezing days and the most days of really cold weather.

The cities included in these rankings are Canada's largest metropolitan areas. These are the 33 urban regions that had over 100,000 people according to the 2011 census by Statistics Canada. The temperature data are averages of weather measurements made from 1981 to 2010.

Canada In Full Winter Mode

CBC
The holiday season might be nearing its end, but the winter season is just starting to flex its muscles as a messy assortment of winter warnings and special weather statements are in place in nine provinces in Canada.

Here’s a breakdown from coast to coast:

British Columbia

Environment Canada is advising British Columbians to postpone non-essential travel due to "hazardous winter conditions" brought by a strong winter storm.

The weather agency issued winter storm warnings and watches for some parts of the province as multiple types of severe winter weather are expected to occur at the same time.

Goodnews! Expect Warmer And Shorter Winter Than Last Year

 Michael Bolen | Huff
This year's winter will be better than the last, according to Canada's official forecast.

Environment Canada released its winter outlook for 2014-2015 on Sunday and the news is good. Canadians can expect a milder and shorter winter than last year. Say goodbye to the reign of the polar vortex.

"Not as long and as brutal a winter as we had last year … for all Canadians," Environment Canada's senior climatologist David Phillips told CTV News. "We won’t have to be migrating and hibernating like we did last year."

Canadians have El Niño to thank for the better weather this year. Warm water near the equator in the Pacific ocean is expected to result in warmer and drier conditions for much of North America.

B.C., the Prairie provinces and much of the Arctic and Maritimes are expected to benefit the most from the warmer air. Ontario and Quebec can expect temperatures closer to historical averages. Not exactly tropical, but positively balmy compared to last winter's polar blasts.

New Brunswick power outages from winter storm may take days to fix

CBC News
Some of the thousands of New Brunswickers who lost power during Wednesday night's snowstorm may be in the dark for days to come, says the public safety minister.

"NB Power has advised that tricky driving conditions are hampering their efforts to assess and repair the damage and it may be a few days before power is fully restored," Stephen Horsman said in a statement late Thursday afternoon.

It will take crews most of Thursday to assess the damage, the statement said.

​​More than 48,000 of NB Power's customers were knocked offline by the first major winter storm of the season in the Maritimes. The storm dumped 35 centimetres of snow on parts of the province — and Environment Canada says more is on the way.