Canadian winter mildest on record

Fri, Apr 2, 2010

April 6th heavy snowfall on one of my Cordylines

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.

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?

Beautiful mauve crocus basking in the January sunshine

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Debbie - who has written 676 posts on My Climate Change Garden.

I am not an experienced gardener - more of an enthusiastic amateur who learns by trial and error and is keen to "manage" the effects of the weather on my garden. Writing this blog is my passion and I hope that it will continue to grow, allowing global gardeners to communicate about the effects of climate change on our plants and the future of our gardens.

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