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Reilly, William Fichtner, John Hawkes and Allen Payne all hop into a fishing boat taking on a perfect storm? I don't know, I was kind of thinking 'Three Kings II', because I just can't help but think of that when I see George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg teaming up again, even if they don't have Ice Cube with them. In a month of frequent winter storms across eastern North America, none was more tragic than the powerful storm that led to the drowning of five young fishermen off Nova Scotia.Stop me if you've heard this one: what do you get when George Clooney, Marky Mark, John C. As a result, it felt and looked like winter from before Thanksgiving to a month after Easter. Tell that to the Prairies, where cold, snow and ice went on for seven months from October 2012 to April 2013. The ensuing melt water and rains funneled quickly into rivers, lakes and streams causing some of the highest and fastest rising water levels in recent memory.Д®nvironment Canada considers the months of December through February as winter. Copious amounts of warm rain also melted a later-than-normal snowpack. Warm, moist mid-April weather led to major flooding north and east of Georgian Bay in OntarioвЂ™s cottage country.

Spring Flooding in Ontario's Cottage Country.

For many in southern Ontario and Quebec, it was a one-day event that packed a punch with strong gusty winds and tons of blowing snow. In February, two weather systems morphed into a blizzard of historic proportions with as much as 60 cm of snow falling along the Atlantic coast. Lawrence, it was one of the wettest years on record вЂ“ more than 13 per cent wetter than normal вЂ“ which helped restore water levels.

In the eastern Arctic, the coldest summer in 15 years helped slow sea ice melting in the Canadian Arctic Ocean.

Rebound in the Arctic Ocean and the Great Lakes.

But what experts considered a вЂњsureвЂќ flood never came to be after a cold spring eased snowmelt and kept water levels manageable. 1ДЇlood forecasters were predicting yet another major Red River Valley flood, which would be the third in five years. Thick glaze left roads and sidewalks slick and dangerous and knocked down power lines, leaving over 500,000 people without electricity. The weekend before Christmas a vigorous winter storm coated parts of eastern Canada with a thick mixture of snow, ice pellets, rain and freezing rain that plunged large parts of the region into days of cold and darkness. Heading eastward, the growing season was more of a rollercoaster вЂ“ some crop yields were up and some were down.

In the West, the growing season came pretty darn close to perfect with food producers describing it as incredible, bin-busting and best in a lifetime. Bumper Crops in the West, So-So for the Rest.Never before had such a drenching thunderstorm soaked a surface with more cement than grass. Two separate storm cells struck Toronto during evening rush hour on July This one-two weather punch delivered more rain in two hours than Toronto usually sees during an entire July.

It was likely the most disruptive flood in Canadian history, cutting off dozens of communities and prompting the largest evacuation with up to 100,000 Albertans told to leave their homes.

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Read the full story Top ten weather storiesДЄlbertaвЂ™s super flood of 2013 washed across one-quarter of the province and through the heart of Calgary. Add an urban landscape with little capacity to absorb the aftermath and you have all the key ingredients for an ominous overflow. In some cases it was fast and furious rains that were to blame in others it was a mix of rainfall and snowmelt. Floods were the big newsmakers in Canada in 2013.