For the second day in a row, Prince Albert breaks a daily cold record. (Ronald Quaroni/ paNOW Staff)

By Ronald Quaroni

Woeful Weather

Year in Review: Broken temperature records highlight cool year

Dec 26, 2019 | 2:00 PM

2019 certainly won’t go down as one of the warmer years in memory for a few reasons.

The high that wasn’t so high

After what could generally be described as a disappointing set of summer months, Mother Nature waited until September to finally send warm temperatures.

On Sept. 16, the year’s highest temperature, 30.8 C was reached.

“It was the warmest temperature reached all summer,” Meteorologist Terri Lang, with Environment and Climate Change Canada, said. “It just tells you how cool the summer it was.”

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It also marked a new-daily-high record, beating the 131-year-old record of 29 C set in 1888.

Frosty February

February 2019 was excessively cold.

The month had all the worst parts of winter; frigid wind chills, deathly-cold temperatures, and even the odd snowfall.

February’s average-mean temperature was -24.6 C making it the fourth coldest February in Prince Albert’s recorded history and if not for two-day warm up at the end of the month it potentially could have ranked second.

“P.A.’s got a fairly long record so still coming in fourth place, you know we all thought it was cold, and it was cold,” Lang said.

During the frigid February records were broken.

Feb. 7, set a new-daily-record low of -44.2 C which was followed by a monthly low of -45 C, also a new-record low for the day. Not to be completely outdone, Feb. 7 recorded a windchill value of -51 C.

Days for the (record) books

As previously mentioned numerous days in Prince Albert recorded brand-new daily-record lows and highs.

• Feb. 7: -44.2C
• Feb. 8: -45.0C
• May. 1: -12.3C
• Sept. 16: 30.8C
• Sept. 17: 13.3C (Overnight high record)
• Oct. 10: -11.5 C

Notable seasons

Forty per cent of the 358.7 mm of precipitation the city received (as of Dec. 11), fell in June and July. Environment Canada’s meteorological spring was the 22^nd driest on record, which was followed by 20^th coldest meteorological summer on record.

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Ron.quaroni@jpbg.ca

Twitter: @RonaldQuaroni