Canada's neverending winter: What are the moments you won't forget?

It may be spring in Canada but winter is overstaying its welcome across most of the country. To give winter one last shove out the door, here’s a look back at what the season looked like across the country.

“What really stood out to me this winter was that it was a season of extremes,” meteorologist Dr. Doug Gillham from The Weather Network said. “We had record cold and record warmth. It was a season where at times we would say ‘wow, what a winter’ and then there were times where you would say ‘what winter?’”

For the Prairies, the “ridiculously cold” weather was a standout from the usual winter forecast, according to Brett Anderson, a senior meteorologist with AccuWeather.

Calgary and Edmonton saw little snow in January and then frigid temperatures in February and March.

“It was an incredibly cold stretch of weather, about 2 to 7 degrees Celsius below normal,” Anderson said. Because of the extreme cold, there was little snow which should reduce the risk of spring flooding.

The west had a fairly typical winter, according to Anderson. Vancouver had above average rain and snowfall and further north, ski zones had plenty of snow and lingering cold which made for ideal winter sport conditions. The ski conditions will continue to be favorable through April.

Quebec and Ontario had a fairly stormy and wet winter. Montreal’s worst storm saw 18 cm of snow in December and Ontario saw a couple of storms that brought over 10 cm that same month.

Ontario fluctuated between extreme temperatures, with a cold snap in early January that plummeted to -23 C at its coldest. Later in February, there was warmer than average weather with the warmest day hitting 16 C, which Anderson called “impressive.” Winter came back to Ontario in March and it looks like it will last throughout the rest of April.

As for Atlantic Canada, who could forget those four Nor’easters? The Maritimes had a fairly stormy winter season with temperatures near to slightly above normal, Anderson described.The standout province weather-wise was Newfoundland, which saw more rain than usual.

“Temperatures were above normal for much of Newfoundland during the course of the winter,” Anderson said. “Not a lot of snow out there like they typically see.”