Mild December weather breaks 18 records across southern Manitoba
Mercury reached 10.6 C in McCreary, Man., while temps rose above 6 C in downtown Winnipeg
Unseasonably mild temperatures melted at least 18 weather records across southern Manitoba on Thursday.
"We've had temperatures as high as 10.5 C in one of the areas where we broke a record, and that's McCreary ... 10.5 C on a December afternoon," CBC meteorologist John Sauder said Thursday afternoon, before the mercury there went up a little higher to 10.6 C.
Preliminary numbers from Environment Canada show which locations broke high-temperature records:
- Berens River (airport): 2.7 C — breaks record of 0.7 C from 1999.
- Carberry: 6.9 C — breaks record of 5.1 from 2004.
- Carman: 7.2 C — breaks record of 6.1 from 2004.
- Fisher Branch: 5.7 C — breaks record of 4.2 C from 2004.
- Flin Flon (airport): 2.4 C — breaks record of –2.5 C from 2000.
- George Island: 2.7 C — breaks record of 1.8 C from 1999.
- Gimli Harbour: 6.7 C — breaks record of 4.8 C from 2004.
- Grand Rapids: 4.4 C — breaks record of –1 C from 2003.
- Gretna: 9.8 C — breaks record of 6 C from 2004.
- McCreary: 10.6 C — breaks record of 7.5 C from 1989.
- Melita: 7.8 C — breaks record of 5.3 C from 2004.
- Morden: 9.6 C — breaks record of 7.1 from 2004.
- Pilot Mound: 8.5 C — breaks record of 5.7 C from 2004.
- Pinawa: 5.2 C — breaks record of 3.4 C from 1999.
- Portage (Southport Airport): 7.1 C — breaks record of 6.2 C from 2004.
- Shoal Lake: 5.2 C — breaks record of 5.1 C from 2004.
- Victoria Beach: 5.5 C — breaks record of 2.6 C from 1999.
- Wasagaming: 5.3 C — breaks record of 4.7 C from 2004.
In Winnipeg, the mercury peaked at 6.3 C at The Forks, but Sauder said no record was broken at the city's official site, the airport. There, the daytime high reached 4 C.
"Still a very warm day considering that the normal high is –7 C," Sauder said, whose forecast calls for an overnight low of –4 C in the city.
Normals in Winnipeg for this time of year are –7 C during the day and –17 C overnight.
Sauder's forecast is calling for more temperatures above 0 C during the daytime until next Thursday.