Manitoba communities bask in warmth of new weather records
Nov. 19 and 20 will be days to remember
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This article was published 22/11/2023 (1017 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
It may be a while before southern Manitoba smashes high-temperature records again, but many community residents will bask in the warm memories during the cold months ahead.
Natalie Hasell, a warning preparedness meteorologist for Environment and Climate Change Canada, said 11 communities set temperature records on either Nov. 19 or 20 as the mercury rose to levels not seen for decades in some of them.
It was the warmest Nov. 19 in 63 years in Emerson when that community hit 9.4 C, besting the former record of 8.9 C set in 1960, Hasell said Wednesday.
MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Golfer Dragan Velaja took the opportunity to hit the links at Southside Golf Course which opened its course because of the warm weather, which broke records across southern Manitoba over the last few days.
Other communities that set records that day were McCreary at 14.2 C (12 C in 1989); Oak Point at 6.8 C (5.6 C in 2009); Steinbach at 10.2 C (8 C in 1989); and Wasagaming in Riding Mountain National Park at 9.4 C (8.1 C in 2009).
On Nov. 20, Altona at 11 C, Emerson at 10.9 C, and Gretna at 11 C, all beat their records of 10.5 C set in 2001. Island Lake reached 6.9 C (4.7 C in 2012) that day, Pine Falls got to 9.9 C (8.1 C in 2009) and Steinbach hit 10.3 C (9 C in 1990).
“We were in the warm section of a low pressure which was up north. Now our flow is out of the north and it is bringing cold weather to us,” Hasell said.
“I think we can say with confidence that we are not going to see 10 C for a while.”
Hasell said the mercury was expected to plunge to -13 C overnight on Wednesday, the lowest temperature so far this fall, before settling in to regular seasonal temperatures with highs around -2 C by the weekend.
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