Sunday, December 13, 2009

Record Lows

It was exceptionally cold in Edmonton today:
Environment Canada recorded a frigid -46.1 C, or -58.4 C with wind chill, at the Edmonton International Airport at 5 a.m. The old record of -36.1 C was set last year, Lessard said. “To break a temperature by 10 degrees is very exceptional.”
 Cold in Copengagen too, -8.5 C, breaking the record for this date by 7 degrees.

Here in St. John's we have -8, also well below normal. And the snow on the ground seems to be settling in. I would expect it to be milder and wetter than it is right now. If the cool pattern maintains we'll have a fairly unusual white Christmas in St. John's.

UPDATE: Across the US, 815 new snowfall records, 304 low temperature, and 403 lowest max temperature records were set this past week.

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