Whilst the UK and much of the USA shivered in freezing temperatures this winter, the usually snowy white scenes in Canada were absent and the current opinion is that winter in Canada was cancelled.
Environment Canada scientists report that winter 2009/10 was 4 C above normal, making it the warmest since nationwide records were first kept in 1948. It was also the driest winter on the 63-year record, with precipitation 22 per cent below normal nationally, and down 60 per cent in parts of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario.
Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Wacky+winter+signal+years+come+Climatologist/2663423/story.html#ixzz0k2FdenUD
This has caused major advancement of the growing season and many gardens are at least a month ahead.This garden blog from Toronto talks about the rare experience of not having any snow at all in March and how it has affected her garden http://feverishthoughts.com/garden/
Let me know if you live in Canada and have been enjoying an early spring in the garden?
This post was written by:
Debbie - who has written 872 posts on My Climate Change Garden.
I am not an experienced gardener - more of an enthusiastic amateur who learns by trial and error and who is keen to "manage" the effects of shifting weather patterns on my garden.
Writing this blog is my passion and it has evolved over 12 years to inspire engagement with climate change outside our back doors, in our personal gardens and green spaces.
My mission is to fertilise and expand this platform to grow a community of global gardeners communicating about the effects of climate change on our plants and exploring how each individual can make small changes in our lives to become more sustainable.
The future of our gardens and #OurPlanet is in our hands - please plant your own seeds for our collective sustainable future.
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Fri, Apr 2, 2010
Climate Change, Canadian Climate Change