Next week, it’ll be -22☌ in the capital city of the Northwest Territories, so Phillips says their temperatures could drop down to -36☌ to -40☌ during a polar vortex. “Typically what we see with the polar vortex are temperatures that are about 20 degrees colder than they should be for that time of the year,” explained Phillips. He says the country’s coldest temperatures tend to dip down to -50☌ at most. Phillips says the polar vortex will bring frigid temperatures and brutal wind chills with it, but that Canadians won’t be experiencing Mars-like cold. Rainfall warning issued for Vancouver as “relentless moisture” hits BC.People are slipping all over Toronto as freezing rain slicks roads and sidewalks with ice.Wild weather: Have you ever seen a snow ghost?.“It’s sort of like a spinning top and when you touch a spinning top all of a sudden, it moves off its circular motion, it kind of loops and it kind of wobbles and it slows down and it moves from where it was stationary to somewhere else,” he explained. It moves from its position in the Arctic when it gets nudged or agitated by other weather systems in the stratosphere, adds Phillips. He says in the summer it gets smaller and in the winter it tends to get bigger. “But it stays home up in the high Arctic right over the North Pole and spins around like a top… It sort of contains all of its cold air and wintry-like conditions right in that circular motion.” It’s even there in the summertime,” explained Phillips. The polar vortex in Toronto in 2014 left the city covered in ice (NelzTabcharani316/Shutterstock). One already hit Alberta in December, and you may remember Ontario’s 2014 polar vortex, which left cities like Toronto transformed into icy wonderlands. What is a polar vortex?Īccording to Phillips, Canada experiences a polar vortex about six or seven times every decade. If your skin is exposed in these conditions, it would freeze in seconds. To put this into perspective, that temperature is just 0.3☌ away from the average temperature on Mars. It broke all kinds of records, becoming Earth’s coldest temperature recorded in 2023 and the coldest temperature Russia has experienced in over two decades, according to The Weather Network. Tongulakh, Siberia, recorded out-of-this-world temperatures on January 14, at a bone-chilling -62.4☌. “It’s on the move… and winter will come back in a gusto for the West in terms of the cold.” “ is coming right from Siberia where it’s very cold, coldest moments in decades,” Phillips told Daily Hive over the phone. He adds that weather will continue to remain warmer than usual in Southern Ontario and Atlantic Canada as the polar vortex peters out by the time it reaches the east. Siberia was blasted with the world’s coldest temperatures so far this year thanks to a polar vortex, and that chill could be making its way to Canada in February.Įnvironment and Climate Change Canada’s senior meteorologist David Phillips says they’re forecasting colder-than-normal temperatures for the month of February in BC, all of the Prairies, the Northwest Territories, the Yukon, and in small parts of Ontario.
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