About
Snowstorms.ca is a Canadian weather website built to help people understand the weather affecting their communities — from today’s conditions and forecasts to severe weather alerts, winter storms, historical events, and the science behind Canada’s weather.
Despite our name, we cover more than snowstorms.
Our goal is to build a comprehensive weather resource for Canadians, with a particular focus on the winter weather that shapes life across the country.
Weather Across Canada
Canada experiences some of the most diverse and extreme weather conditions in the world.
A snow squall in Ontario, deep freeze on the Prairies, atmospheric river in British Columbia, hurricane in Atlantic Canada, or wildfire-producing heat event can create very different risks depending on where you live.
Snowstorms.ca brings weather information and educational resources together in one place to make it easier to understand what’s happening, what it means, and how weather affects communities across Canada.
Our coverage includes:
- Current weather conditions and forecasts
- Weather alerts, warnings, watches, and advisories
- Snow and winter weather
- Severe and hazardous weather
- Canadian weather conditions and terminology
- Weather safety and preparedness
- Meteorology and weather science
- Historical storms and significant weather events
- Canadian weather records and statistics
- Weather trends, rankings, and comparisons
- Local weather information for Canadian communities
As Snowstorms.ca grows, we plan to continue expanding our weather data, tools, local coverage, and educational resources.
Built for Canadian Weather
Snowstorms.ca is focused on Canada.
That means covering the weather conditions, terminology, geography, seasons, and extreme events that are particularly relevant to Canadians.
Winter is an especially important part of that mission.
Snowfall, blizzards, snow squalls, freezing rain, extreme cold, blowing snow, ice storms, and rapidly changing winter conditions affect millions of Canadians every year.
Our goal is to build one of Canada’s most useful online resources for understanding these events while continuing to provide information about weather throughout every season.
More Than a Forecast
Checking the temperature is only one part of understanding the weather.
We want Snowstorms.ca to help answer the questions that come after seeing the forecast.
What does a snowfall warning mean? What’s the difference between a weather watch and a warning? What causes a snow squall? Which Canadian cities receive the most snow? What happened during Canada’s most significant winter storms?
Our educational resources, glossary, historical coverage, and weather guides are designed to make those answers easier to find and understand.
Historical Weather
Canada’s weather history contains extraordinary events that continue to shape how communities prepare for severe weather today.
Snowstorms.ca documents significant Canadian storms and weather events using historical records, government information, academic research, news archives, and other credible sources.
Our historical coverage looks beyond basic statistics to explain what happened, why the event occurred, which communities were affected, and what made the event significant.
By building a growing archive of Canadian weather history, we hope to make reliable information about these events easier to discover and preserve.
Our Approach to Accuracy
Weather information deserves careful sourcing.
We prioritize authoritative and primary sources whenever reasonably available, including Environment and Climate Change Canada, other Government of Canada agencies, provincial and municipal governments, emergency management organizations, universities, scientific research, official records, and reputable weather data providers.
Historical and research-intensive content may use multiple sources to verify important facts and provide additional context.
We also recognize that forecasts change, datasets can be revised, and historical sources sometimes disagree.
When uncertainty matters, our goal is to communicate it rather than create a false sense of precision.
You can learn more about how we research and evaluate information in our Sources & Methodology.
Our Editorial Standards
Content published on Snowstorms.ca is guided by principles of accuracy, clarity, transparency, reliable sourcing, and editorial independence.
We aim to make complex weather information understandable without sacrificing its underlying meaning.
We also aim to distinguish between official information, third-party weather data, editorial content, calculations, and predictions so readers can better understand what they are viewing.
Our complete standards are available in our Editorial Guidelines.
Independent and Canadian-Focused
Snowstorms.ca is an independent website.
We are not Environment and Climate Change Canada and are not affiliated with or operated by the Government of Canada.
Snowstorms.ca does not independently issue official weather warnings, watches, advisories, or emergency alerts.
During severe weather or emergencies, Canadians should always follow information and instructions provided by Environment and Climate Change Canada, emergency management agencies, local authorities, and other appropriate official sources.
Building Snowstorms.ca
Snowstorms.ca is an evolving project.
We’re continuing to expand our local weather coverage, improve how weather information is presented, develop new educational resources, document significant events from Canada’s weather history, and explore new tools that can make Canadian weather information more useful.
Our long-term goal is simple: make Snowstorms.ca a trusted destination for Canadians who want to check the weather, understand it, prepare for it, or learn more about it.
Questions, Feedback and Corrections
We welcome feedback from readers.
If you have a question, spot something that may need to be corrected, have information about a Canadian weather event, or simply want to get in touch, please visit our Contact page.