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Climate of Edmonton — Wikipedia (en)

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Edmonton has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification Dfb). It falls into the NRC 4a Plant Hardiness Zone. The city is known for having cold but sunny winters. Its average daily temperatures range from a low of −10.3 °C (13.5 °F) in January to a summer peak of 18.1 °C (64.6 °F) in July. The average maximum is 23.5 °C (74.3 °F) in July, and the average minimum is −14.7 °C (5.5 °F) in January. Temperatures can exceed 30.0 °C (86.0 °F) for an average of four to five days anytime from late April to mid-September and fall below −20.0 °C (−4.0 °F) for an average of 24.6 days. On June 30, 2021, at approximately 5:00 pm Edmonton South Campus reached a temperature of 37.4 °C (99.3 °F). This surpasses the previous 37.2 °C (99.0 °F) set on June 29, 1937. On July 2, 2013, a record high humidex of 44 was recorded, due to an unusually humid day with a temperature of 33.9 °C (93.0 °F). The lowest overall temperature ever recorded in Edmonton was −49.4 °C (−56.9 °F), on January 19 and 21, 1886 and February 3, 1893. Summer lasts from late June until early September, and the humidity is seldom uncomfortably high. Winter lasts from November to March and in common with all of Alberta varies greatly in length and severity. Spring and autumn are both short and highly variable. Edmonton's growing season is from May 9 to September 22; Edmonton averages 135–140 frost-free days a year. At the summer solstice, Edmonton receives 17 hours and three minutes of daylight, with an hour and 46 minutes of civil twilight. On average Edmonton receives 2,299 hours of bright sunshine per year and is one of Canada's sunniest cities. The summer of 2006 was a particularly hot one for Edmonton, as temperatures reached 29 °C (84 °F) or higher more than 20 times from mid-May to early September. Edmonton's geography is also capable of producing summers where temperatures do not exceed 29.0 °C (84.2 °F). In Edmonton City Centre, the summer of 1916 had the lowest yearly maximum temperature of 27.2 °C (81.0 °F), and most recently in summer 1999 with a yearly maximum temperature of 28.8 °C (83.8 °F). Edmonton International Airport saw its lowest yearly maximum temperature at 28.3 °C (82.9 °F) in the summer of 1974. Summer 1980 and 1993 saw no daily minimum above 12.8 °C (55.0 °F) at Edmonton International Airport. The lowest yearly maximum daily minimum at Edmonton City Centre is 13.3 °C (55.9 °F), which was set and tied 5 times between 1883 and the last instance set in 1907. Summer 1992 also saw no dew point above 16.5 °C (61.7 °F) in Edmonton International Airport and 15.4 °C (59.7 °F) in Edmonton City Centre. The winter of 2011–12 was particularly gentle. From December 22, 2011, till March 20, 2012, on 53 occasions Edmonton saw temperatures at or above 0.0 °C (32.0 °F) at the City Centre Airport. The winter of 1969 was particularly cold. Between January 7 and February 1, temperatures at Edmonton's Industrial Airport reached daily highs of −6 °F (−21.1 °C) on two occasions an

Tema degli esploratori: terra, clima ed energia (deposito sistematico; ricerca «climate change»).
Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Climate of Edmonton» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Edmonton
Wikidata Q85850358 (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85850358
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Edmonton?action=history).
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