Environment Canada releases winter outlook. Time to get the snow pants out?

Cold weather has come early to many parts of the country as Environment Canada released its winter outlook for the coming months.

After a “remarkably mild” fall almost everywhere in Canada, the “abrupt start” to the winter felt “especially sharp and much colder than Canadians have become accustomed to in recent years,” said Environment Canada meteorologist Jennifer Smith.

Over the next three months, Canadians are likely to see above-average temperatures across the eastern Arctic, around Hudson Bay, across Northern Quebec and Labrador, Smith said.

Some regions, like parts of Yukon, the Northwest Territories and western Nova Scotia, could see below-seasonal temperatures. Others, such as the west coast of British Columbia, eastern Nova Scotia, and central and eastern Newfoundland, lean