Several Manitoba communities set temperature records on Wednesday and amazingly they were highs — not lows.
Danielle Desjardins, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, said Dominion City, Emerson, Steinbach, Sprague, Pinawa, Arnes, Gimli and Berens River toppled warm temperature records while Pilot Mound tied its record.
“The same air mass was in northwestern Ontario so they set records, too,” Desjardins said on Thursday, adding most of the records beat ones set in the same year.
“You could say the temperatures on Nov. 2, 2022, were just like Nov. 2, 1978, in most places.”
Scott Kehler, president of Weatherlogics, said Winnipeg didn’t set a record, “but it was still warm here.
“It was 18.4C (on Nov 2), but the record is 21.7, which was set in 1903.
“(Thursday) was 4 C and that’s back to close to normal. The average high is 2 C.”
The temperature is expected to be normal or slightly above normal until next week. That’s when a Colorado low is on the horizon.
— Staff
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