Talk:List of extreme temperatures in Canada

Inconsistency
The lowest temperature given does not match Weather extremes in Canada, where the second lowest in this list is reported.

As I do not know which is correct, I have not amended either. 87.113.177.37 (talk) 11:53, 6 July 2011 (UTC)


 * As an aside, there's no doubt there must have been even lower temperatures in places like the Baffin Island mountain range, though these went unrecorded. 83.254.151.33 (talk) 07:10, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

The "Lowest Temperature Readings" and the "Yearly Canadian Temperature Extremes" seem to have conflicting information. For example, there is only 1 entry for 2018 and one for 2017 in "Lowest Temperature Readings" (both for Rabbit Kettle -49C & -48C), but then "Yearly Canadian Temperature Extremes" has entries for those two years which are lower (Kugaaruk -51C, Mould Bay -54C) and would therefore be expected on the previous table. Would edit, but this is not my specialty, and perhaps I misunderstand the tables. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.65.36.151 (talk) 02:21, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Unofficial readings
Is it really necessary to include unofficial readings. Someone has a backyard thermometer in Saskatchewan that reads 46 degrees while the nearby Environment Canada weather station only records 38 degrees. Hmmm, hardly an accurate reading if you ask me. Lots of backyard thermometers exaggeration the temperature by 5 to 10 degrees. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.50.255.103 (talk) 23:14, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree, figures which are considered unreliable, unofficial, should be removed. Official temperatures can be accessed here http://climate.weather.gc.ca/historical_data prokaryotes (talk) 09:06, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

The website has been removed. Please update. And I personally was in Whitehorse Yukon in December of 1978. Durring which my grandparents flew in to a cold snap reported by the airport at -67°c. Granted I wasn't one yet, butmy grandfather, grandmother, swore to it through dementia, and my father still swears by it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.30.183.182 (talk) 14:23, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Suggestion: Make two tables official/unofficial
It should be made more clear that many readings are not considered official, reliable. For instance, some references include links to forum posts, or to archived pages, without references (Environmental Canada). prokaryotes (talk) 09:41, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Environment Canada changed their domain name from "weatheroffice.gc.ca" to "weather.gc.ca" so the sources still exist, but the addresses need to be updated. I will work on updating links. Tatlayoko (talk) 16:52, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

How to deal with obvious errors
There are some record values that clearly wrong. For example, the 41.7C record in North West, NFLD. How do we deal with these. Should we skip them and use the 2nd highest temperature ever "recorded" instead? Tatlayoko (talk) 21:16, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I'd recommend contacting weather.gc.ca if you see an error. Alex of Canada (talk) 17:59, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

New table for hottest/coldest monthly mean?
It would be nice for another table showing the hottest/coldest avg temperature for a month in the year. We have a hottest and coldest yearly mean, so why not monthly as well? For 2018 the hottest mean so far would probably be Windsor, at 24.6 Alex of Canada (talk) 18:02, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

June 2021 record highs
I don't think Twitter is WP:RS. We need the number off a gc.ca website in my view and the highest I see for June 27 is 46.2. A possibility here is that 46.6 was reached some minutes before or after the 5 pm temp of 46.2. But that's just speculation, surely the Canadian government will record 46.6 somewhere (besides Twitter) if that's the number. https://web.archive.org/web/20210628071238if_/https://weather.gc.ca/past_conditions/index_e.html?station=vly --Brian Dell (talk) 07:19, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
 * There are plenty of sources for the 46.6 right now; but these records are being broken quickly, so Twitter is often the first place to get the news. I think it's reliable enough it's from a government agency or a news agency. When the heatwave is over, we can maybe find better sources. -- Earl Andrew - talk 13:12, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

2021 Yearly Canadian average mean temperatures
Where is the warmest and coldest Yearly Canadian average mean temperatures for 2021. Can someone add it please? 2607:FEA8:A380:3140:A8AC:BBCC:DEF0:A835 (talk) 17:03, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

Lytton coldest temp
The coldest temp data is incorrect for Lytton BC. 2605:59C8:52F:FA10:DDEE:E0E2:CC4C:8D63 (talk) 06:46, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Labrador City, NL - Cold Record
In 1982, there was a sustained winter storm that saw temperatures fall below -100C (with the wind chill factor included). I believe the way the wind chill factor is calculated has been updated since then, and I don't know what the actual temperature was, but I imagine this would at least be noteworthy.

Source: https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/01/20/The-state-of-emergency-in-Labrador-City-Nfld-where/6868380350800/ 2600:1700:913D:E010:88C9:EBA:B2DD:B7C3 (talk) 04:36, 9 July 2024 (UTC)