The Local News Data Hub’s goal with this project, published on November 11, 2021, was to produce a series of stories on how climate change will alter winter cold and summer heat in Canadian communities in the coming decades.
The stories paint a picture of winters with fewer cold days, when temperatures fall below freezing, and summers with more hot days, when temperatures soar above 30 C. The Data Hub’s analysis for the stories compared climate change data for the period 1951-1980 with data for the period 2051-2080. It is based on projections available from the ClimateData.ca portal, a collaborative national data initiative funded by Environment and Climate Change Canada.