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Humidex and Windchill should be removed from the Canadian weatherbox templates as these values are not a temperature. The indexes vary from country to country. For someone from another country viewing our climate data on Wikipedia, those values are irrelevant. According to Environment Canada, you can not have a Humidex with a temperature below 20 C or a windchill with a temperature above 10 C. Extreme high and low temperatures are often outside of this range for certain months of the year for many stations across Canada (ie. winter for Humidex, summer for Windchill) and should therefore not be included in the climate table. If viewers want to find the extreme highs and lows of those indexes in those respective seasons, they can click the reference link and find it on Environment Canada's webpage.

Also, details at the top of the table in the location section should show what period normals are calculated and when temperature records began (ie. "1981–2010 normals, extremes 1872–present"). If long term records were once recorded downtown and then moved to the airport (as is the case with most cities in Canada during the 1930's and 1940's), a footnote (efn) should be included along with a reference to the original climate station data.