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What would you consider overall more brutally cold?
Great Falls:
January average: -9.1 to 1.9C
July average: 11.2 to 28.6 C
Average snowy days a year: 44
Average daily low: 0.4C
Record low: -44C
Toronto:
January average: -7.3 to -1.1C
July average: 17.9 to 26.4 C
Average snowy days a year: 42
Average daily low: 5.6C
Record low: -32.8C
I would say Great Falls is easily a colder climate. The winter highs maybe be higher but the lows are lower and the cold period is much longer. It can even snow in the summer in Great Falls, in Toronto that would never happen.
I'd consider Toronto a fairly standard temperate climate, albeit certainly a bit on the cold side. Great Falls on the other hand has some characteristics of a subarctic climate.
Those averages for Great Falls do not give a clear picture of a Montana winter, if you just look at the averages. The temperature swings in Montana are enormous, they can catch warming winds (chinook) off the mountains that give them an occasional warm day you would never get in Toronto. Not to mention that Toronto gets more snow from being in the great lakes region. I would choose the Montana winter over Toronto, If I had to pick one. Montana gets those really cold arctic blasts of 40 below once in a while, but they recover from that and get some 50's and 60's, when the wind is right. A few nice winter days are better than none, and would think Montana gets more sunny days than Toronto, winter or summer.
Those averages for Great Falls do not give a clear picture of a Montana winter, if you just look at the averages. The temperature swings in Montana are enormous, they can catch warming winds (chinook) off the mountains that give them an occasional warm day you would never get in Toronto. Not to mention that Toronto gets more snow from being in the great lakes region. I would choose the Montana winter over Toronto, If I had to pick one. Montana gets those really cold arctic blasts of 40 below once in a while, but they recover from that and get some 50's and 60's, when the wind is right. A few nice winter days are better than none, and would think Montana gets more sunny days than Toronto, winter or summer.
60s in winter in Montana is pushing it. 50 is about the warmest it gets. And especially nowadays 50 in winter in Toronto wouldn't be that unusual. Toronto gets more winter snow but Great Falls can get snow over a much longer period of the year. Great Falls is sunnier than Toronto but I wouldn't consider it a sunny place in general, it's pretty average for cloud cover.
I'd consider Toronto a fairly standard temperate climate, albeit certainly a bit on the cold side. Great Falls on the other hand has some characteristics of a subarctic climate.
Toronto is certainly much less brutal in winter than Montana but I would not consider it a temperate climate. Toronto is on the mild side of the continental climates, and even then it's not the mildest of the continentals - Windsor, Ontario and the Niagara peninsula are milder than Toronto in winter and they are still continental.
Temperate to me is New York, Philadelphia, Paris, London...
Toronto is colder because it rarely goes above the freezing mark during winter months
Really? The average January high for Toronto is 30.7C, which is almost at the freezing mark.
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