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Originally Posted by Metro-One
For someone from the west coast the winters still look pretty cold. Colder than the South Okanagan with an extremely delayed spring (June's average high is only just above 12 degrees, not to mention how terrible March, April and May look to be). The warmest month does not even average above 20 for a high (18.7, which is akin to the outer coast of Vancouver Island), it has over 100 days with fog, and has 1427 hours of sunshine and 74 days of measurable snowfall.
IMO it seems to largely get the worst of both worlds climatically between mild oceanic and continental.
It helps prove how sometimes latitude can be misleading.
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Well, the impact of latitude doesn't necessarily show up in those statistics. If you go farther south the sun is higher in the sky, brighter, and warmer even if the air temperature is not. It's somewhat noticeable just going from Ontario or Nova Scotia (42-45) to around here (49), or from here to Edmonton (53).
Vancouver's warmer than Windsor on average right now but the sun reaches the same angle in Windsor on December 11 that it does in Vancouver on November 6, or Edmonton on October 24. The southern parts of Eastern Canada get a lot more nice sunny winter days than we do here, partly due to the difference in cloud cover but also partly due to latitude. The difference is quite noticeable. It is huge if you go down to San Francisco, which is 37 degrees, closer in latitude to some eastern cities than they are to Vancouver.
Of course St-Pierre and Miquelon have pretty awful weather no matter how you slice it. Newfoundland is in the same boat. The nice time of year is incredibly short. In St-Pierre it is really only August. 1 month of quasi-summer, 3 months of spring, 3 months of autumn, and 5 months of winter. Kill me now.
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