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Here's what El Nino means for Canada's winter (www.ctvnews.ca)
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After seven years of La Nina conditions, the surface temperature of the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean has warmed again, signalling the switch to a global El Nino event. Here is what Canadians can expect this El Nino winter.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

In ontario though winter basically stopped existing 10 years ago.

This aligns with my experience of winter in Toronto. Last year, iirc, we had one week that was absurdly cold, maybe 2 or 3 snow falls that were more than a few cm, and otherwise it was a low-precipitation 4.5 months of about -4 Celsius. Winter was more of an event in Toronto 20 years ago when I was a kid. Snowstorms that grinded the city to a halt weren't uncommon. Maybe this is hindsight bias, and I should look at some data to verify it.

That said, it's clear from others' posts that winter is different in other places in Canada - without going too far either, like Muskoka or Ottawa