Calgary’s average of 4.8°C zaps the previous record of 3.2°C set all the way back in 1936. For reference, Calgary’s daily average temperature hovers around -5°C through the first half of February.
It’s a similar story over in Edmonton, where the 2.2°C average bests the previous warmest start to February, which had an average temperature of 1.4°C in 1889.
Saskatchewan:
Even communities that saw subfreezing temperatures still experienced record high values.
Saskatoon’s average temperature of -3.2°C beats the old record from 1934 by more than one-half of a degree.
Kindersley’s previous record of -1.2°C in 1991 fell to this month’s average temperature of -0.5°C.
Estevan also managed to eke out a new record with an average of -0.8°C, just squeezing by the previous record from 1987.
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