Weather in Canada 2020

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100 years ago...
Top weather events from 1900-1920

Rogers Pass Avalanche - March 5, 1910. Sixty-two train men and labourers perished 2 km west of Rogers Pass, BC, when their engine was hit by an avalanche and hurtled 500 metres into Bear Creek. Over 600 volunteers used pick axes and shovels to dig through 10 m of snow in the search for survivors.
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• World's Worst Iceberg Accident - April 15, 1912. The unsinkable Titanic collided with an iceberg 700 km southeast of Newfoundland, causing the death of 1,500 people and making headlines around the world.

• Deadliest Canadian Tornado - June 30, 1912. A late afternoon tornado slashed through six city blocks in Regina, killing up to 40 people, injuring 300 others, destroying 500 buildings and leaving a quarter of the population homeless. Better known as the "Regina Cyclone", the tornado lasted three minutes but it took 46 years to pay for the damages.

• Black Sunday Storm - November 7-13, 1913. One of the most severe Great Lakes storms on record swept winds of 140 km/h over lakes Erie and Ontario, taking down 34 ships and 270 sailors. Days later, the crew of one ship was found lashed to the mast, frozen to death -- only the ship survived.

• Storm Claims Sealers - April 1, 1914. Seventy-seven sealers froze to death during a violent storm on the ice off the southeast coast of Labrador. At the height of the storm, from March 31 to April 2, the temperature was -23°C with winds from the northwest at 64 km/h.

• Fog Causes Ship Collision - May 29, 1914. Shallow river fog contributed to the collision of two ships -- the CP Liner Empress of Ireland and a Norwegian coal ship, The Storstad -- in the St. Lawrence River, 300 km seaward from Quebec City. The liner sank in 25 minutes, and 1,024 passengers lost their lives.

• Victoria's Snowstorms of the Century - February 2, 1916 and December 28-29, 1996. Huge snowstorms, 80 years apart, clobbered Canada's "snow-free" city with more than 55 cm of snow. The December storm dropped 80 cm of snow in 24 hours, 125 cm in five days with cleanup costs exceeding $200 million (including a record insurance payout for BC of $80 million).

• Killer Lightning - July 29, 1916. Lightning ignited a forest fire which burned down the towns of Cochrane and Matheson, Ontario, killing 233 people.

• Princess Sophia Sinks off BC - October 23, 1918. A Canadian steamship carrying miners from Yukon and Alaska became stranded on Vanderbilt Reef. Rescuers were unable to remove the 268 passengers and 75 crewmen due to a strong northerly gale. The next day, weather conditions worsened and the ship sank killing all on board.

[Mark]

In Kindersley, Saskatchewan 47.6 cm (1½ ft) of snow piled up, making it the snowiest November day on record and the largest two day snowfall event for the city.

A record, not just for the day, mind you, but for the entire month of November. And this hit on November 9, early in the month, so there’s still a lot of November to go.

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There have been reports of 20-40 cm (8-16 inches) of snowfall near Edmonton, Alberta and a wind gust hitting 102 km/h was reported in Ardenville.


 
Other areas of Alberta and Saskatchewan have suffered widespread and prolonged freezing drizzle, freezing rain, ice pellets, significant ice accretion and strong winds, bringing the risk of ongoing power outages.

Thanks to Jack Hydrazine and Kenneth Lund for these videos

And here’s a video of a blizzard one day later in Saskatchewan:

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Meteorological winter arrives December 1 and Mother Nature delivers a blow of the white stuff on Southern Ontario

[Mark]

Toronto and the GTA were hit with a brief but intense storm on Sunday, as powerful winds downed power lines and trees.

Multiple power outages were reported as police urged people to stay indoors and off the roads Sunday.

Toronto police launched a marine rescue of a missing wind surfer off Cherry Beach in the height of the storm.

Const. David Hopkinson, media relations officer with Toronto police, told the Star that officers went to the beach at 3:20 p.m. A number of kite surfers were also at the beach, he said.
https://www.thestar.com/news/starweather/2020/11/15/ontario-braces-for-possible-power-outages-with-strong-winds-overnight-flurries-in-the-forecast.html

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TUESDAY: LAKE-EFFECT SNOW PROMPTS TRAVEL ADVISORY FOR SIMCOE AND GREY-BRUCE COUNTYThe first in the pair of lake-effect snow events began Monday, as falling temperatures and winds from the northwest allowed bands of snow to form off of Lake Huron and Georgian Bay.[/font][/font][/color][/size]


The Weather Network - The pattern that'll reverse the snow squalls across Ontario Wednesday

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Christmas Eve evening started with light snow, and this morning woke to a beautiful and quiet Christmas sight [/size]https://map.bloomsky.com/weather-statio ... apnJSnoJim[/color][/size]26 cm for my CoCoRaHS reporting.Merry Christmas to All!Paul[/color]