Polar vortex pounces over all-time Canadian temperature records
Tyler Hamilton
Tuesday, February 9th 2021, 6:00 am - Temperatures are tumbling frighteningly low across Canada and some regions felt like -60 with the wind chill this past weekend.
A prominent lobe of the polar vortex settled over Western Canada on Sunday and created the coldest Canadian temperatures in years, and in some cases, record-breaking cold that was reported by a handful of weather stations.
It was so chilly on Sunday that even the most sophisticated satellites were perplexed and caused them to pick up the ground and mark it as freezing cloud-tops.
The resulting output looked like a gargantuan thunderstorm over the Prairies, which can be seen in the graphic below.
Sir David Attenborough s A Perfect Planet shares stories from across the globe
21 Jan, 2021 04:38 AM
8 minutes to read
Fresh eyes: Lockdown has helped naturalist Sir David Attenborough examine the natural world anew. Photo / Supplied
Fresh eyes: Lockdown has helped naturalist Sir David Attenborough examine the natural world anew. Photo / Supplied
Daily Telegraph UK
By: Sarah Marshall
In his new series A Perfect Planet, Sir David Attenborough focuses as much on landscapes and the forces that shape them as he does on wildlife. Sarah Marshall checks out the locations Over the past six decades, Sir David Attenborough has shared stories of exotic creatures from across the globe. But in 2020, like so many of us, he spent time studying a habitat closer to home: his garden.
Stage-grabbing cuttlefish and heart-stealing flamingo chicks star in David Attenborough’s A Perfect Planet. Sarah Marshall explores where they can be seen.