In dark purple you have areas where the average high temperature in January is above freezing (0°C; 32°F).
And in light purple you have even warmer places where the average low in January is above freezing (basically stays above freezing the whole month).
From the author:
- The areas colored are districts where the warmest city fits the criteria.
- This map uses climate data from populated places. So a district might have a warmer climate but I didn’t include it unless there were actually people living in that area of the district. For example: Halifax technically includes Sable Island but only horses and seals live there.
- This map includes every place in Canada with a temperate climate under the Koppen Climate Classification. These being Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and British Columbia. Southern Ontario is considered to have a mild continental climate.
To put that into some perspective Ottawa, Canada’s capital city and where I grew up, has a typical January high of -5.2 °C (22.6°F) and an average daily low of -13.7 °C (7.3°F) based on data from 1991-2020.
And if you go to Iqaluit, Nunavut you can get a daily Jan high of -21.7 °C (-7.1°F) and low of -29.6 °C (-21.3°F).
What’s the coldest place you’ve ever been?
CP Danish says
Dear Mr. Wright:
You had to ruin your lovely, fantastic idea of all kinds of maps by inserting politics into the introduction of your “Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds” book? Why? Why can’t people leave their politics to themselves anymore today? Do you really want to turn off half of the US population and actually make them rethink buying your books? In your one forward, you were successful in taking a snipe at Trump supporters, and the right-wing. Is your TDS that extreme that you feel the need to turn off so much of the world? Why not keep your political viewpoints to yourself? Instead of contemplating purchasing all of the books in your series for some of my nephews for Christmas, instead, you have made me rethink things and perhaps I will be forced to pass because of what a turn off it was to read your introduction.
Sincerely,
CP Danish
Brilliant Maps says
“I think apologizing’s a great thing, but you have to be wrong. I will absolutely apologize, sometime in the hopefully distant future, if I’m ever wrong.” – Donald J Trump