Spring is here — after Canada's warmest winter on record

Spring has officially arrived, after a winter that didn’t feel much like one.

The months of December, January and February were the warmest on record in Canada, part of a pattern of unprecedented temperatures across the globe over the past year.

David Phillips, senior climatologist at Environment and Climate Change Canada, said this past winter could be described as a “cancelled season.”

“It often arrives on Halloween and leaves at Easter, and we kept waiting for this one to arrive,” he said. 

On average, the temperature over the three-month period was 5.2 C warmer than the norm since Canada began keeping records in 1948, said