This ain’t your grandparents’ climate
Share This: Memory has a way of distorting our perceptions of climate change. We remember snow drifts as high as our heads when we were kids, but forget that we were only three […]
Warmer Prairie winters: sounds good, but what does it really mean?
Share This: Residents of Churchill, Manitoba know cold. On average, Churchill experiences about 44 days of extreme cold — where the minimum temperature drops below -30 °C — per year. These temperatures are potentially dangerous […]
Science Update: Tropical Nights in Manitoba?
Share This: A Tropical Night occurs when the overnight temperature remains above 20 °C. Tropical Nights are exceptionally rare phenomena across most of Prairies. In fact, both Calgary and Edmonton experienced a grand total of […]
Opinion: The 1.5 °C Challenge
Share This: A recent article in the Guardian newspaper highlights the implications of the Paris agreement to limit global warming to 1.5 °C compared to 2 °C as had been the generally […]
Climate Report Cards: how prepared is your region for climate change?
Share This: With the launch of the Prairie Climate Atlas last month came a new adaptation tool we called the ‘Climate Report Card.’ These reports detailed climate change statistics for major cities and […]
Science Update: the ‘wet gets wetter, dry gets drier’ trend
Share This: A recent publication in Nature Climate Change (Donat et al, 2016) has significant implications for future water management on the Canadian Prairies. The influence of a warming planet on precipitation patterns is a […]
New Poster Highlights Implications of the Changing Prairie Climate
Share This: What will climate change mean for the Canadian Prairie Provinces? A new educational poster was published today by the Prairie Climate Centre highlighting the risks of climate change across the region. […]
Research and Collaboration: Adapting our Forests to Climate Change
Share This: For forest ecologist Dr. Andrew Park, getting Manitoba’s forests ready for climate change is of top concern. Park, an associate professor at the University of Winnipeg, is partnering with the Prairie […]
Win a deck of limited edition Prairie Climate Centre playing cards!!!
Share This: The Prairie Climate Centre Playing Cards feature 52 unique maps, graphs and tables depicting expected changes in temperature, precipitation and much more for communities across Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Enter our […]
Climate Atlas points to very large increase in +30 °C weather for the Prairies
Share This: Last week we launched the Prairie Climate Atlas – which illustrates how climate change is likely to impact the Canadian Prairie Provinces. One of the most dramatic maps in the atlas […]