Weather Predictions Compliments of The 2024 Old Farmer’s Almanac Canadian Edition
For our Canadian readers and visitors, find out what’s in store for winter 2023–2024. It’s tailor-made for skiers, snow bunnies, and winter lovers across the country: snow and lots of it.
WINTER WHITEOUT: From the Atlantic seaboard to Arctic shores to the Pacific Coast—in almost every nook and cranny that typically sees snow—Canadians should expect oodles of fluffy white throughout the season. This will be coupled with seasonably chilly temperatures at or below normal.
WET AND MILD: Labrador and the very eastern tip of Newfoundland will be the real outliers this winter, with average or slightly above-normal temperatures and below-normal snowfall. Keep the shovels and umbrellas handy, though: The season is still expected to be very wet, with periods of snow and lots of rain.
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SWEATER WEATHER: Winter in Southern British Columbia will be remembered for bouts of bone-chilling cold. Keep the fireplace going and hot cocoa at the ready! Snow and rainfall in the area will be near- or above normal for the season.
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More Than Weather Predictions
After you come in from the cold, you’ll find The 2024 Old Farmer’s Almanac Canadian Edition perfect for cozying up with plenty that’s “useful, with a pleasant degree of humour,” including …
- When oceans bring snow: Ocean currents move atmospheric moisture, affecting storms’ location and strength. As these currents slow, weather all over the planet is impacted, sometimes in extreme ways that may extend across centuries.
- Gardening for everyone (even those who don’t): Learn about the easiest garden edible that most aren’t growing (hint: it’s a key ingredient in baked goods), plants that go up in an actual puff of smoke, and the gardening trends blooming in 2024, including scratch-and-sniff plants and the continued push for no-lawn landscapes.
- Recipes for breakfast lovers: Enjoy fun facts about “warm cakes” while making blueberry buttermilk pancakes or traditional latkes, then try out a recipe for the hands-down, absolutely best bread for toast. It takes 18 hours, but it’s worth it! (Really.)
- Anecdotes & Pleasantries from Almanac readers: step-by-step instructions for hypnotizing your own foot, the protocol for when Groundhog Day goes horribly wrong, and handy tips for happiness.
- Stories that only the Almanac can tell: the case for being less prickly about porcupines; cures for colds, aches, and pains in a world of hurt; memorable Olympics moments; expert angling advice; tips on how to enjoy 2024’s total solar eclipse; an often forgotten (but very important) part of land ownership; and much, much more!
Where to Buy Your Copy
The 2024 Old Farmer’s Almanac Canadian Edition is available for just $9.99 on Amazon.ca. You can also find a digital edition of the 2024 Almanac in our Almanac General Store.
Are you looking for the U.S. winter weather predictions? See the U.S. winter map and forecasts for 2023–2024.
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I always bought the Canadian almanac because of the tide tables. They stopped including them so I stopped including them, too.
Our tide tables are still included! Flip to page 238 in the 2024 Edition!
I'm more or less on the line of cold and snowy and the mild and snowy, basically a normal Canadian winter depending where you live. You can’t go wrong with this prediction. It’s like predicting summer weather saying sunny warm with a possibility of rain and thunder storm with a few cool spell.
And yet .. they got it WAY wrong.
Ontario predictions more snow, very cold - sounds wonderful to me!! Cross country skiing has been pitiful with melting snow turning to ice with the season constantly cut short. I am hoping this prediction comes true looking forward to a longer snowy ski season 2023.
Ok - this is a weird prediction. For the southern part of the western prairies - Alberta and Saskatchewan - it can't possibly be cold and WET at the same time in winter. If it is cold, it will be snowy. If it is wet, it will be warm. That's because the average temperatures for December and January are -8C for a maximum and -17C for a minimum. In Fahrenheit that's 17F maximum to 0F minimum. It snows at those temperatures, it doesn't rain. If it rains, it would be above 32F (0C), which is much warmer than average. By the way "cold" would be something around -25C to -35C (around -15F to -30F - that's below zero.). This forecast does not make sense. Sorry.
Hi, AlicjaB, You make a good case and in looking at the specific Prairies forecast, it appears to agree. However, the Summary forecast states above-normal precipitation and below-normal snowfall. We don’t change our forecasts once they are “inked” so, while it does seem potentially incompatible, we’ll wait and see how the weather conditions play out. Thank you for your considered comment. We appreciate your interest!
Doesn't the strong el Nino forming usually predict warm winters in Canada?
You have s good question, Alicia.
Neither does the weather,most times. Depending on how the Pacific winter weather blows up it could mean wet heavy snow or a combination of sleet and icy rain and in which month it would happen.
