Spring arrives early with double-digit temperatures across the country
Posted Mar 12, 2012 01:59:00 PM.
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TORONTO – Wondering where winter has gone? It’s almost nowhere to be found in Canada.
Environment Canada says temperatures in much of the country soared more than 10 degrees above seasonal norms on the weekend and are expected to stay that way over the next few days.
Senior climatologist David Phillips says temperatures will hit double digits in all provinces east of British Columbia before the week is over.
B.C. itself will miss out on the warm spell, and the territories are expected to keep seeing typical winter weather.
Phillips says the effect of the warm air that usually starts to flow at this time of year is being intensified by the lack of snow on the ground in much of Canada.
But he says it’s still too soon to give up on winter, saying more cold weather is still expected later in the month.
