Canadian Zones Map (images)

Barrie..Thanks for your map...thats looks about as pin point accurate as it can be...(at least in S.Ontario)...Although were wide open to the prevailing and cursed "north/northwesteries", Lake Ontario has a moderating effect (as does the heat island effect from the city), on our temps and its becoming more obvious with our milder winters...

Palmettoman Z6-Ajax

Barrie, yes, thanks for that map.
But it's worse than I had hoped!
Vernon--and 5 miles east, where I live--shows to be a 4a. 😥
Damn.
Barb

Kelowna zone 6b as well as a small area of Vernon 6b and Penticton 6b.Great detailed map Barrie.

John

OK folks...that's a nice way of saying I need to look up my house address
when I come back from shopping! 😆
Barb

Thanks Barrie. I am going to reserve saying that the map seems about 1/2 to 1 zone cold until tomorrow morning.

Allen

Apon closer inspection, there appears to be a solid zone 6b designation for the lower elevation areas of Kootenay Lake in eastern BC, just north of Idaho. It's the area that looks like a sideways "T" on the zone map (in pale yellow).
Here's a map of the Kootenay Lake region. Too bad we don't have someone on this forum that can grow & report on exotics tried in that area.

Cheers, Barrie.

Now THAT'S a map (with towns listed). 😉

Barrie, any chance you can post another...slightly west of the newest map that
shows Hwy 6 from Nakusp heading BACK to Vernon?
I'm not just lazy...link wouldn't load for me.

Agree it'd be good to have palm/cycad lovers from Kootenays, Kamloops area too.
They must be out there.
Barb

Barb,
Are you refering to the road map? If so, I don't have anything more than what was posted. Sorry 🙁

Cheers, Barrie.

Shoot... 😥 was hoping to "overlay" the road map onto YOUR new Okanagan zone map.
To see where the little zone "edges" end in relation to towns.
No problem.
Barb

Hi Barb;
After putting my magnifying glass to a BC road map and the Zone map, I can make an uneducated guess.

Salmon Arm through Armstrong are Zone 6a and 6b. You are a little south of that and would be in Zone 3a 😉 or maybe 5b.

Barrie;
I stand corrected. The area surrounding Edmonton is 2a and the polluted centre of Edmonton is 3a 😳 Now I am going to go change my profile. 🙁

Allen

Call me Mr. negative... Or anti-zone denial... Or whatever... But there is NO WAY that my location north of Kingston is in zone 5b! Were other factors, like summer heat, taken into consideration? I know that we have warm summers, but our winters are just too cold to be considered 5b!
Anyway, I've been 6a so far this winter... And I would imagine that as the climate continues to warm I will inch closer and closer to actually being able to call my zone 5b or even 6a! Again, sorry for being Mr. negative... I guess I'm just a data junkie...

Here is an interesting thing to note. I was looking at low temps to date, and Januray averages (just in Ontario, sorry) and the station at Port Weller jumped out at me. Average high 2.7C, Avg. low: -2.7, extreme low: -10.7C. So far Port Weller is having a zone 8a winter! I thought that was amazing! Even the wamrest stations (Burlington Peir, Welland, Vineland) have seen zone 7 temperatures...
Well. I thought it was interesting anyway!
Allen, you staying warm?

Oh, and Barrie, thanks for sharing the maps!

Jeez, Allen you've come to the same conclusion as me! Thanks, I think 😕
Just wish a road map was on the same scale as Barrie's map.

Paul, it's not negativity...we just want unusually warm winters (when we have 'em) to be the norm.
Wow, Ontario's been mild thus far...

Read somewhere that the Atlantic has been warmer than normal, and the Pacific Ocean colder.
A UK forum poster said he hadn't had below zero (in his area) since 2005.
Barb

Paul...Thanks for the info, those are interesting facts about Port Weller's lows this year...Port Weller is right on Lake Erie and from what I understand, the soil is nice and sandy..I guess all the way around (to this date) we've just been lucky to escape the frigid temps...We consistently start bottoming out on temps around mid Jan but there hasn't been that and it doesn't look like we will anytime soon...

Palmettoman Z6-Ajax, On

You would be surprised how warm it feels today. -25 and almost no wind brought out the fools with no hats or gloves, me included. The snow melting on my bald spot felt a little chilly. Otherwise everything was fine except that it is still too cool to barbeque.

Allen