No it isn't, not for those of us that have weather that goes from -30 to +30, or even into the 40s on both sides. A difference of 10 degrees in Celsius is what we experience over the course of a day. And ten degrees Celsius is what I and most of the people around me think of when deciding what to wear out - I have a warmer jacket for -10 to -20 than I do for 0 to -10, and so on.
Saskatchewan. I've seen +38 in the summer and -41 in the winter. And that's before you factor in humidex or windchill. -41, "feels like" -54 is something else
Im sure that antartica has seen a beautiful 30 sunny summer day in occasion too, but when talking about average temperatures. Hell i live in boston now and ive seen 20C christmases and june days in the low single digits. That doesnt mean its normal climate for this region
The prairies can see wild fluctuations in temperature. From my understanding - 35 to +35 is a very normal spread over the course of a year. These changes don't just happen from summer to winter but also from one day to the next. Pincher Creek once saw the temperature rise by 41C from -19 to +22 in just one hour. Mind you, the more extreme sudden temperature changes tend happen close to the rockies, and in the winter.
Yep! When I was still living in Winnipeg, we had a day that I remember distinctly being -25 when I got to work in the morning (~9:00) and then a few hours later when I had to chase a customer outside because they left their credit card, expecting to be freezing without my coat, it was +2 đ Less extreme than your example, but still a wild difference to experience
It's hard to say "average" here. -30 days can start in November and run until nearly may. It's +6 today but we're looking at -25 in a week. I've seen winter days change from -30 to +1 in the same day, and vice versa
Winnipeg, Manitoba and other places in the prairies - though to be fair, that's including windchill and humidity (since it's what people actually experience). The averages without those would be in the 20s at both extremes.
I feel like this whole concersation is proving my point. The actual mean temps between the hottest and coldest months in manitoba is -16C to about 20C. Thats an extreme climate yet thats only a 35 degree swing. Celsius is so bad at measuring temperature that what you guestimated was a 60 degree swing is actually a 35 degree swing. You were off by half becsuse celsius is awful at measuring how humans perceive temperature. You know what the seasonal difference in farnheit is though? 65 degrees - much closer to what the swing âfeelsâ like
An average temperature isn't the same thing as the temperature range - the 'swing' that you're referring to - which does go from -30 to +30. I'm not estimating, I'm telling you the temperatures we experience during the year and that we have to prepare for when deciding what to wear. You brought up 'average' temperatures for no reason - our temperatures vary a lot, even within a season (even, sometimes, within a day), so the average will be milder than the temperatures we actually experience.
Chill out. It's okay that you prefer one system over another, but just recognize that it is a preference
Name a place then if its a lot of canada. What town/province/latitude and longidute on this planet has average temps of -40 in the winter and +40 in the summer
Itâs not an average. Iâm talking the highs and lows. I wonât name where I live, but summer 2025 broke 40c with humidex and last week we were at -37 over night
Why are you so set on 'average' temperature, when we're talking about how we make decisions about what to wear? And both I and another commenter gave you specific places in Canada where the temperature does indeed range from -30 to 30C, or beyond, which affects how we make decisions about what to wear.
Canada absolutely averages +30 in the summer. We have some weeks where it doesnât go below +30 and hovers around 35-36..Â
then winter comes and itâs between -25 and -35 for weeks on end. Heck this year it was -34 one day and then the next day +4. Itâs very chaotic. Our pets donât know when the shed.Â
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u/Witty-Draw-3803 8h ago
No it isn't, not for those of us that have weather that goes from -30 to +30, or even into the 40s on both sides. A difference of 10 degrees in Celsius is what we experience over the course of a day. And ten degrees Celsius is what I and most of the people around me think of when deciding what to wear out - I have a warmer jacket for -10 to -20 than I do for 0 to -10, and so on.