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Late-March Arctic Cold Grips Canada
Winter still has Canada in a chokehold.
Rivière aux Feuilles, Nunavik, Quebec plunged to -43.3C (-45.9F) on March 30 — an extreme late-season low and around 25C below average. Two days before April, that’s just 3.3C shy of Quebec’s all-time April record.
This isn’t isolated. Much of Canada has run well below normal through March.
And the pattern is locked in.
Persistent troughing over Canada is anchoring Arctic air in place, while ridging dominates large parts of the United States. A positive Arctic Oscillation is effectively corralling the cold into the high latitudes — with Canada at the center.
Forecasts show little change into April.
Below-normal temperatures are set to persist across the country.
Spring may be underway on the calendar. But across Canada (and Alaska and much of Greenland and central Siberia), winter hasn’t left.
April Snow South Of The Border
That cold is set to crack a little south in the coming days, pulled into the U.S. as storm systems begin to track through.
