The Day After Tomorrow in Edmonton
Posted by pwl on December 13, 2009
The temperature at the Edmonton International Airport dipped to -46.1 C at its lowest point, smashing the -36.1 C record set in 2008, Environment Canada meteorologist David Schmidt said yesterday.
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The Edmonton City Centre Airport recorded -36.6 C yesterday, beating the previous record of -32.8 C set in 1882.
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Thankfully, Schmidt added, the season’s icy grip will ease by mid-week when the Arctic high-pressure area dominating weather over the Prairies will shift to a Pacific stream.
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The all-time record at the International Airport was set in January 1972, when the mercury fell to -48.3C. [I lived in Edmonton then and remember it all too well – pwl].
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Edmonton was the coldest place in the world yesterday, second only to a Siberian weather station, where temperatures reached -48 C.
You don’t need to know what he is saying as the results speak for themselves.
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