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CNKS: Northern Maine and NB can get just as cold as Goose Bay at mid winter, however they will have a much longer spring, summer and fall. Those ocasional snows on the east coast are all hinged to ice flows out of the north in spring, and most of that ice is breaking up off the coast of Labrador, and around offshore islands. As it flows south it melts. One of the unique features down east, there is no prevailing wind. Then you consider the Atlantic is still 32-35 F by the 1st June. If we happen to be getting west winds off the continent, it keeps the drift ice offshore, continental air melts it faster, thus the ocean warms faster. Problem is the wind can change very quickly to an east wind which pack all the coastal inlets and harbours with drift ice. I've seen Sydney NS harbour full of ice on the 3rd of June, however bear in mind they have very likely had 60-70 days of above freezing temps by that time, 30 days of it probably above 55 F. I remember once near end of April, talking via phone with a guy from here in London ON. He asked what April weather was like in NS. I said, "depends on which way the wind is blowing, west wind will give us a nice continental April day, and an east wind just remember the Atlantic is still very close to 32 F, and it can be damn miserable. On May 9th 1972, I was putting up fence, in shorts, no shirt, etc. On May 10th we awoke to a foot of snow, that was all gone by evening, and two days later I was planting corn. No, it wouldn't be fair to compare Maine or Maritime Canada weather to Goose Bay.
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