By Ronald Quaroni

Record Temperature

P.A. breaks cold weather record set in 1962

Feb 7, 2019 | 11:00 AM

The daily low temperature record has been broken by a few degrees.

Dan Fulton a meterologist with Environment Canada said the province is in the midst of an arctic high pressure ridge that has brought some extremely cold temperatures to Prince Albert.

“You’ve hit -43 degrees, the old record was -40.6 degrees set in 1962,” _{– Dan Fulton.}

Meadow Lake had a significantly colder day than their previous record of -39.8 C in 1994. Today they set a new daily low record of -44.4 C.

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Fulton said the Prince Albert area is currently the epicentre of the ridge of high pressure air which is resulting in the bitterly cold temperatures across the prairies. While it may seem we’ve had an abnormally long stretch of cool weather Fulton added it’s quite typical.

“It just happens to be that this year its decided to sit over the prairies and it’s been over us for a while now… this one seems long but if you actually went back you’d see we had stretches in the past like this,” he said.

Fulton said the only thing that will pull us out of the deep freeze is warm westerly winds that could start pushing some of this cold air away. Unfortunately that may not start to happen until the beginning of next week.

Other than the wicked temperatures some other features of this cold weather is ice fog. Ice fog forms when the temperatures get so low that what little moisture remains gets pulled into the air causing a dense haze to form.

ron.quaroni@jpbg.ca

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