Break records going back as far as 1871. That’s 146 years!
NOVA SCOTIA
Issued by Environment Canada
The following station set a daily minimum temperature record on July 23, 2017:
Port Hawkesbury
New record of 5.5
Old record of 6.0 set in 1986
Records in this area have been kept since 1875
NEW BRUNSWICK
The following station set a daily minimum temperature record on July 22, 2017:
Edmundston
New record of 2.4
Old record of 2.7 set in 2013
Records in this area have been kept since 1914
The following stations set a daily minimum temperature record on
July 23, 2017:
Edmundston
New record of 1.3
Old record of 5.0 set in 1996
Records in this area have been kept since 1914
Grand Manan
New record of 5.5
Old record of 7.0 set in 1992
Records in this area have been kept since 1883
Kouchibouguac Nat’l Park
New record of 6.3
Old record of 7.0 set in 1979
Records in this area have been kept since 1924
Saint John
New record of 5.1
Old record of 6.3 set in 1992
Records in this area have been kept since 1871
Woodstock
New record of 3.3
Old record of 3.9 set in 1932
Records in this area have been kept since 1886
Thanks to K Cairns for this info
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The below links: http://web.archive.org/web/20170724183502/http://weather.gc.ca/warnings/weathersummaries_e.html#AB
If cold records were broken shouldn’t they appear in the NOAA NCEI Global Daily Record Summarys? Am I missing something or is NOAA?
Dave, they wouldn’t, as NOAA is for US only, and not Canada.
Wat’s the big deal about lows,they have been above average in the max temps.
Potential frosts that can occur at night or early morning can kill vulnerable crops. Lows are monitored as a signal for the beginning and the end of the growing season. Plus when you are looking at global temperature anomalies you aren’t just looking at the high or the low you are looking at the average of the two. You might set a record cold max but if it’s cloudy and the temperature only drops a few degrees the whole day ends up being average because of no night time drop and vice versa.
Figured it out. Newest data available appears to be July 13.