Canada Weather Records in 1983

19,387 weather records set or tied in Canada in 1983, by type, with the calendar of record highs and lows and the records that still stand.

Key Facts for Canada in 1983

19,387 weather records were set or tied in Canada in 1983.
7,997 were record highs and 4,856 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
277,826 records set in 1983 still stand in Canada.

Records per Year, by Type

1983 outlined

Records set or tied in Canada each year from 1870 to 1983, stacked by type. 1983 had 19,387.

Weather records per year in Canada, stacked by type, 1983 outlined
Year	Highest daily maximum	Lowest daily maximum	Highest daily minimum	Lowest daily minimum	Heaviest daily rainfall	Heaviest daily snowfall	Deepest snow cover	Total
1870	12	2	4	1	0	0	0	19
1871	21	13	17	14	0	0	0	65
1872	7	9	4	11	0	0	0	31
1873	3	14	2	14	0	11	0	44
1874	11	5	8	11	10	5	0	50
1875	4	22	3	21	12	14	0	76
1876	11	6	11	10	10	9	0	57
1877	12	1	19	3	9	1	0	45
1878	9	1	12	1	18	3	0	44
1879	16	10	8	8	2	5	0	49
1880	13	8	9	7	11	5	0	53
1881	18	7	18	2	7	6	0	58
1882	9	5	6	3	5	2	0	30
1883	1	10	1	11	8	6	0	37
1884	6	8	5	6	6	5	0	36
1885	4	21	2	15	9	7	0	58
1886	5	9	3	7	7	3	0	34
1887	8	3	2	6	4	4	0	27
1888	4	10	3	8	5	3	0	33
1889	6	5	9	3	5	4	0	32
1890	6	5	2	1	8	1	0	23
1891	15	2	5	2	8	2	0	34
1892	5	0	6	5	6	2	0	24
1893	5	1	2	2	7	1	0	18
1894	9	4	7	3	5	5	0	33
1895	13	6	10	5	4	5	0	43
1896	12	3	12	7	3	2	0	39
1897	9	1	8	3	6	3	0	30
1898	11	0	12	2	9	6	0	40
1899	18	5	9	3	6	1	0	42
1900	21	4	17	1	18	11	0	72
1901	45	9	61	3	84	24	0	226
1902	94	60	94	40	162	55	0	505
1903	128	109	107	107	194	88	0	733
1904	87	173	98	216	292	153	0	1,019
1905	115	80	111	133	260	107	0	806
1906	258	142	265	119	344	122	0	1,250
1907	127	281	159	192	311	176	0	1,246
1908	347	121	285	162	352	160	0	1,427
1909	286	171	307	175	421	193	0	1,553
1910	384	163	428	151	379	160	0	1,665
1911	408	236	507	207	289	181	0	1,828
1912	209	379	193	294	507	207	0	1,789
1913	628	200	590	237	509	187	0	2,351
1914	390	392	428	377	504	314	0	2,405
1915	329	228	471	269	671	242	0	2,210
1916	562	358	513	387	670	399	0	2,889
1917	276	529	273	397	715	442	0	2,632
1918	515	412	575	498	721	361	0	3,082
1919	618	484	595	513	761	354	0	3,325
1920	536	464	540	422	759	398	0	3,119
1921	730	291	812	191	789	371	0	3,184
1922	481	331	505	339	712	362	0	2,730
1923	455	625	553	733	702	416	0	3,484
1924	412	537	440	427	761	408	0	2,985
1925	564	676	545	505	719	474	0	3,483
1926	486	714	569	538	829	493	0	3,629
1927	610	573	697	464	959	445	0	3,748
1928	720	423	876	345	782	357	0	3,503
1929	605	636	653	631	880	509	0	3,914
1930	1,133	631	1,230	553	706	353	0	4,606
1931	1,443	276	1,409	228	909	326	0	4,591
1932	974	606	1,084	476	1,145	521	0	4,806
1933	885	1,022	657	1,016	1,082	747	0	5,409
1934	1,282	865	1,188	858	964	479	0	5,636
1935	702	1,071	779	947	1,177	593	0	5,269
1936	1,359	1,211	1,307	1,314	1,145	634	0	6,970
1937	1,104	492	1,038	319	1,253	551	0	4,757
1938	1,356	362	1,381	344	1,180	554	0	5,177
1939	1,366	733	1,168	652	1,299	641	0	5,859
1940	926	804	1,379	682	1,519	779	0	6,089
1941	1,698	537	1,619	388	1,606	583	0	6,431
1942	1,626	844	1,648	692	1,858	877	0	7,545
1943	1,447	1,591	1,007	1,686	1,798	915	0	8,444
1944	2,333	860	2,095	811	1,997	840	0	8,936
1945	2,601	1,845	2,129	1,617	2,609	1,324	0	12,125
1946	2,852	1,426	1,885	1,543	2,394	1,278	0	11,378
1947	2,483	1,586	2,731	1,606	2,917	1,494	0	12,817
1948	1,690	1,556	1,929	1,700	2,949	1,304	0	11,128
1949	3,443	1,347	2,690	1,561	2,740	1,449	0	13,230
1950	1,933	3,471	1,490	3,216	3,217	1,960	0	15,287
1951	1,683	2,983	2,120	2,497	3,435	2,284	0	15,002
1952	2,323	1,098	2,281	1,120	2,792	1,266	0	10,880
1953	3,435	1,382	3,047	922	3,215	1,356	0	13,357
1954	2,476	3,297	2,967	2,326	4,279	1,945	0	17,290
1955	1,731	3,536	2,029	2,559	3,761	2,319	0	15,935
1956	2,089	2,768	2,513	2,620	3,619	2,223	0	15,832
1957	1,957	2,247	2,373	1,775	3,341	1,477	0	13,170
1958	2,606	1,749	3,109	1,629	3,133	1,605	0	13,831
1959	1,592	2,872	2,275	1,672	3,660	1,968	0	14,039
1960	1,613	1,485	2,128	1,405	3,203	1,619	0	11,453
1961	2,856	1,793	3,069	1,281	3,517	1,921	0	14,437
1962	2,313	2,672	2,431	1,739	3,532	1,800	0	14,487
1963	3,332	2,165	3,244	1,292	3,211	1,483	0	14,727
1964	1,981	2,816	2,479	2,274	3,385	2,045	0	14,980
1965	1,704	3,739	1,986	2,629	3,444	2,339	0	15,841
1966	1,831	2,636	2,745	2,030	3,430	2,155	0	14,827
1967	1,733	2,455	2,055	2,098	3,604	2,277	0	14,222
1968	2,945	2,533	3,237	1,973	3,600	1,796	0	16,084
1969	1,766	2,290	2,544	2,020	3,506	1,969	0	14,095
1970	1,861	2,166	2,374	1,964	3,383	2,206	0	13,954
1971	1,775	2,121	2,159	1,883	3,436	2,463	0	13,837
1972	1,398	4,435	1,824	4,015	3,959	2,816	0	18,447
1973	2,409	2,030	3,631	1,545	3,725	1,721	0	15,061
1974	1,788	3,261	2,035	2,495	3,982	2,447	0	16,008
1975	2,619	2,253	2,883	1,764	3,965	2,566	0	16,050
1976	3,048	2,670	2,829	2,430	3,612	2,031	0	16,620
1977	4,013	2,454	3,933	1,787	3,536	1,801	0	17,524
1978	1,681	2,441	1,876	2,578	3,352	1,861	0	13,789
1979	3,182	2,892	4,393	2,101	3,598	1,918	1	18,085
1980	3,005	2,496	3,153	2,108	3,772	1,772	2	16,308
1981	5,145	2,034	5,589	1,658	4,181	1,418	2	20,027
1982	2,350	3,672	2,363	3,138	3,867	2,246	64	17,700
1983	3,250	2,499	4,747	2,357	4,464	2,058	12	19,387

Warm to Cold Ratio by Decade

Record highs per record low by decade in Canada: 1870s 1.1 to 1, 1880s 0.9 to 1, 1890s 3.0 to 1, 1900s 1.3 to 1, 1910s 1.3 to 1, 1920s 1.2 to 1, 1930s 1.7 to 1, 1940s 1.6 to 1, 1950s 1.0 to 1, 1960s 1.1 to 1, 1970s 1.1 to 1, 1980s 1.5 to 1.

Record highs per record low in Canada, by decade
Decade	Highs per low
1870s	1.07 to 1
1880s	0.89 to 1
1890s	2.98 to 1
1900s	1.31 to 1
1910s	1.34 to 1
1920s	1.20 to 1
1930s	1.65 to 1
1940s	1.64 to 1
1950s	1.01 to 1
1960s	1.11 to 1
1970s	1.05 to 1
1980s	1.49 to 1

Standing Records by Year Set

1983: 277,826

Records still standing in Canada by the year they were set. 277,826 of them were set in 1983.

Standing records in Canada by the year they were set, 1983 highlighted
Year set	Standing records
1840	159
1841	18
1842	18
1843	15
1844	14
1845	20
1846	11
1847	20
1848	15
1849	15
1850	16
1851	14
1852	15
1853	17
1854	19
1855	26
1856	23
1857	25
1858	13
1859	20
1860	19
1861	15
1862	20
1863	6
1864	16
1865	178
1866	1,360
1867	602
1868	410
1869	393
1870	2,042
1871	3,464
1872	4,728
1873	2,872
1874	3,323
1875	3,982
1876	3,214
1877	2,906
1878	4,567
1879	5,106
1880	4,103
1881	4,208
1882	6,217
1883	8,888
1884	7,180
1885	7,082
1886	5,637
1887	5,280
1888	5,571
1889	5,472
1890	5,600
1891	6,471
1892	5,515
1893	6,810
1894	7,214
1895	8,219
1896	7,702
1897	7,237
1898	6,838
1899	9,022
1900	9,573
1901	7,433
1902	7,814
1903	10,099
1904	9,955
1905	9,746
1906	11,042
1907	11,046
1908	10,560
1909	11,578
1910	12,536
1911	15,275
1912	14,313
1913	17,777
1914	21,456
1915	19,694
1916	24,965
1917	23,056
1918	22,075
1919	25,282
1920	20,070
1921	22,625
1922	22,900
1923	22,774
1924	28,984
1925	24,259
1926	26,742
1927	22,240
1928	19,474
1929	26,582
1930	25,321
1931	25,780
1932	26,696
1933	28,705
1934	29,989
1935	27,762
1936	37,164
1937	25,502
1938	25,742
1939	29,547
1940	27,637
1941	27,210
1942	29,740
1943	31,557
1944	27,728
1945	33,707
1946	30,831
1947	34,177
1948	31,704
1949	38,789
1950	45,310
1951	48,117
1952	36,150
1953	43,661
1954	51,043
1955	76,420
1956	56,904
1957	54,792
1958	62,067
1959	69,110
1960	58,085
1961	85,724
1962	81,467
1963	86,139
1964	83,167
1965	92,458
1966	92,775
1967	107,145
1968	98,276
1969	98,061
1970	102,286
1971	115,102
1972	128,888
1973	127,770
1974	121,976
1975	127,456
1976	128,512
1977	130,476
1978	125,768
1979	153,613
1980	210,154
1981	334,342
1982	255,408
1983	277,826

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Sources: Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Climatology Network Daily (GHCN-Daily). Records are computed by World Extreme Weather Monitor and are not official NOAA products. (US Government open data (NOAA NCEI)) Made with Natural Earth. Public domain map data. Borders are Natural Earth's de facto depiction. Data as of 2026-10-13 (13 October 2026). Records are computed by this site and are not official.

Data as of 2026-10-13. Last revised 13 October 2026 (2026-10-13).