Long Term Climate Extremes, Daily Extremes of Records – Precipitation

Anomalous weather resulting in Temperature and Precipitation extremes occurs almost every day somewhere in Canada. For the purpose of identifying and tabulating daily extremes of record for temperature, precipitation and snowfall, the Meteorological Service of Canada has threaded or put together data from closely related stations to compile a long time series of data for about 750 locations in Canada to monitor for record-breaking weather. Virtual Climate stations correspond with the city pages of weather.gc.ca. This data provides the daily extremes of record for Precipitation for each day of the year. Daily elements include: Greatest Precipitation.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Last Updated January 16, 2026, 20:47 (UTC)
Created January 16, 2026, 20:47 (UTC)
contains_pii oui
crisis_categories Fortes pluies
criticality_level Faible
data_formats CSV; GEOJSON; HTML
fair_openness Level 2 - Machine-readable
geographic_scope Canada
sensitivity_level Faible
source_inventaire Inventaire_W
source_url https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/8fc6ad48-1a98-45fa-9eba-9a27ddae5014
subject nature_and_environment, science_and_technology
update_frequency as_needed
year_most_recent 2024-04-04 19:53:22.456000
year_start 2022-11-21 23:20:30.363000