{"id":554361,"date":"2026-01-30T16:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/554361\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T16:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:49:14","slug":"dont-wait-for-the-groundhog-canadas-february-outlook-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/554361\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t wait for the groundhog! Canada\u2019s February outlook is here"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"February<\/p>\n

A return to colder temperatures east of the Rockies would help to build a storm track favourable for Texas and Colorado lows<\/a> that could threaten the East Coast with impactful winter weather.<\/p>\n

Folks around the Great Lakes have some good and bad news heading into February.<\/p>\n

The good news is that a healthy increase in ice coverage across the lakes has reduced the ability for lake-effect snow to form<\/a>. The bad news, however, is that we\u2019re also losing the water\u2019s ability to moderate frigid temperatures before they spill over southern Ontario.<\/p>\n

February sees warming temperatures, longer days<\/b><\/p>\n

January is historically the coldest month<\/a> of the year for most communities across Canada, so the climatological depth of winter is behind us. But make no mistake: February is still a very cold month for the entire country.<\/p>\n

\"Climate<\/p>\n

Seasonal temperatures gradually rise between the beginning and end of February. The average high in both Edmonton and Toronto rises several degrees between Feb. 1 and Feb. 28. Typical daytime highs climb a few degrees throughout the month in Winnipeg, Montreal, and Ottawa.<\/p>\n

Days are also slowly growing longer. Toronto is on track to gain around 1 hour and 15 minutes of daylight by the final day of February. The gain is even more dramatic at higher latitudes, with Calgary set to gain nearly 1 hour and 40 minutes of daylight throughout the month.<\/p>\n

WATCH: What does wind chill mean and how is it calculated?<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A return to colder temperatures east of the Rockies would help to build a storm track favourable for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":554362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50,176176,204218,3159],"class_list":["post-554361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-polar-vortex","tag-wind-chill","tag-winter"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115985079964671886","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}