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Pacific Coast: plus 2.0 degrees C (warmest ever)

B.C. southern interior: plus 1.9 degrees C (warmest ever)

Northern B.C. and Yukon: plus 2.9 degrees C (warmest ever)

Mackenzie Delta: plus 2.3 degrees C (fifth warmest year)

Source: Environment Canada

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The data helps illustrate a wild weather year that was influenced by both a powerful El Nino in the Pacific Ocean and what NASA describes as global climate change “largely driven by increased carbon dioxide and other human-made emissions into the atmosphere.”

According to both NASA and the U.S. National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, which measures the Earth’s surface temperature in a slightly different way, 2015 averaged 14.79 degrees C, the hottest since 1880 when records began. And it beat the previous 2014 record by roughly one quarter of a degree, the second largest year-over-year margin.

Canada, as a northern nation, generally experiences greater-than-global-average impacts from climate change, but 2015 was no normal year.

In fact, David Phillips, the senior climatologist at Environment and Climate Change Canada, says only a very hot autumn likely kept all of eastern Canada from experiencing an abnormally cool year.

Overall, Canada’s average temperature from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31 was up 1.3 degrees Celsius from the historic average measured over the last 68 years

However that national average hides some massive regional temperature swings, as in Atlantic Canada, which Phillips says was one of the very few regions on the planet that experienced a colder-than-average 2015.