Top Ten Weather Stories

Top Ten Weather Stories Archive

2004

Includes flashing flooding events in Edmonton and Peterborough, white out storms that pounded Halifax, a bypass of summer for much of the country and a nation wide deep freeze in January.

2003

Includes fires and avalanches in British Columbia, drought and locusts on the Prairies, blackouts in Ontario, flash floods in Quebec, hurricanes in the Maritimes and ice floods in Newfoundland.

2002

Includes the cruel weather which plagued Canada's prairies, hurricane Gustav, winter that was not; spring felt more like winter; summer overstayed and fall went missing and the lazy, hazy days of summer in Ontario and Quebec that brought endless heat alerts.

2001

Includes the gale-force winds that toppled trees in British Columbia, the hailstorm from hell in Winnipeg, the most snow in a quarter century in Montreal and  the "Perfect Storm" that hit the East Coast.

2000

Includes the deadly tornado in Pine Lake Alberta, the series of torrential rain storms throughout Canada and the powerful Hurricane Michael that hit Newfoundland.

1999

Includes Toronto's “state of emergency” snow storm, a 90 car black ice pile-up in Calgary, Atlantic Canada's never ending drought and the wettest period on record for British Columbia.

1998

 Includes the devastating ice storm that hit Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec and the record breaking temperatures that warmed the spring, summer and fall.  

1997

Includes the raging Red River Flood in Manitoba, the arrival of an extreme El Nino and the snowfall of the century in Victoria, British Columbia. 

1996

Includes Canada's first billion dollar weather disaster, the Saguenay Flood in Quebec, cold winter temperatures across the country that raised heating bills and the heavy winter snow fall that hit Central Ontario.

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