{"id":8409,"date":"2015-12-15T16:08:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T21:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=8409"},"modified":"2015-12-15T17:11:46","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T22:11:46","slug":"our-winters-arent-what-they-used-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/our-winters-arent-what-they-used-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Our winters aren&#8217;t what they used to be says Environment Canada&#8217;s David Phillips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought Monday was rather balmy you\u2019d be absolutely correct. In fact it was record breaking. We haven\u2019t seen such a warm December 14 since 1975 \u2013 and we still beat it.<\/p>\n<p>It reached 11.1 degrees in 1975 and we hovered around 12 degrees yesterday.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong> <broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>But winter enthusiasts fret not, you may still get a little chill, according to Environment Canada\u2019s senior climatologist David Phillips. He says by the time the weekend hits, we\u2019ll at least know what season it is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe liquid stuff will come to an end on Thursday and then the temperatures fall, not tumble but just ease downward,\u201d said Phillips, predicting flurries and snow squall activity during the weekend with lows of -9 and -13 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you\u2019re going to finally see the white stuff\u2026 but clearly you\u2019re not going to be buried in snow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Phillips said it\u2019ll hopefully put people in the festive mood but just as you start craving the eggnog, temperatures will once again rise.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Will Muskoka get a white Christmas?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If Phillips had to put his money on it, he\u2019d say we won\u2019t. He predicted rain and a high of 4 and a low of -2 on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"modern-quote full\"><p>Even at night the temperature is not going to fall below freezing so my sense is it\u2019s going to not be a white Christmas.<cite>Environment Canada&#8217;s David Phillips<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But before you lynch him, here\u2019s his caveat: Because of Muskoka\u2019s lake effect, any cool air that comes through could produce some flurries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you know flurries don\u2019t seem like a lot but it can develop into a snow squall and you can have significant snow fall. But then what happens after the snow engine turns on, then it\u2019s going to be assaulted again with some warm rains and mild temperatures,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>This past fall was also the warmest on record and our winters overall keep getting warmer, said Phillips.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is it climate change?<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"modern-quote full\"><p>You look at the trends, are we warmer now? Yes we are, our winters aren\u2019t what they used to be. Last year and the year before it wasn\u2019t like that, but when you average them all you see a small relentless kind of warming.<cite>david phillips<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He warned that if we get one day that seems to be balmy and unusual, \u201cit\u2019s just telling you it\u2019s weather and it\u2019s coming from the south and it probably can be explained by jet streams and high pressure areas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, \u201cour winter seasons seem to be shorter, they are fractionally warmer than normal, we see maybe less snow, we see a greater chance of having a green Christmas, we see less ice in the north\u2026 that\u2019s climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Phillips also noted that not all areas are warming equally. \u201cIf we look at the Great Lakes area, we generally find that over 68 years, since the 1940s, our temperatures in the winter have warmed up by not quite one degree. But if you look at places like northern British Columbia or the Yukon, they\u2019ve warmed up by five degrees,\u201d he said. \u201cNow every area of Canada is warmer so the whole country is warmer now. Our winters aren\u2019t what they used to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought Monday was rather balmy you\u2019d be absolutely correct. In fact it was record breaking. 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