Canada is one of the Subarctic Regions
Canada's Subarctic Region
Northern Canada / Alaska is a Subarctic / Arctic Region. This region is always very cold during the winter but is mild during the summer. The winter is normally around -30 *F, while the summer is usually around 50 to 70*F . An interesting thing is that the winter only last 3 months and the nights are 17-19 hours long. The summer is mostly 9 months (spring and fall is relatively short) and it is 19 hours of full sunlight. This part snows barely and produces just around 17in during the entire year. This area also brings cold air to the United States and when mixed with the warm Gulf Of Mexico air, it produces storms and tornadoes.
Russia is the biggest Subarctic area
Russa's Subarctic Region
Russia (Siberia) contains the largest subarctic mass,coldest weather (besides Antarctica), and diverse weather. Beside it being the largest type of its kind, Siberia isn't really that different from Canada. It does snow more, by about 2-3 more inches. It is also much colder than Canada and because its large size and weather, there is less types of animals and people. But, it does hold more different types of plants and animals than in Canada, but that's in Vegetation and Animals.
The Subarctic and Arctic is warming up.
Tempreture of the Arctic and Subarctic in Dec. 2010
This picture indicates that the blue to purple colors are -1 to -5 is 5*C-9*C cooler than average. That means the cold air that was in the arctic and subarctic is now spilling into most of Europe/Asia and North America. The green to red colors (1-5) means that the area is 5*C-9*C warmer than usual. In the picture it means that the Arctic is warming up. The good news is that more snow/ ice would melt giving more water to the Arctic and then the Subarctic. The bad news is that more water will melt which would lead to rising seawater and losing most of our fresh water (in the ice). Most scientist agree that this is caused by global warming and the greenhouse effect. This is changing the Subarctic by the amount of snow, dangers of ice crashing into it, and the slow but steady warming.