Global Warming Update:

CENTURY-OLD LOW TEMPERATURE RECORDS CONTINUE TO TUMBLE ACROSS CANADA; SNOWFALL BENCHMARKS BUSTED IN NEVADA (AND ELSEWHERE)

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CENTURY-OLD LOW TEMPERATURE RECORDS CONTINUE TO TUMBLE ACROSS CANADA

Arctic air has settled over much of Canada this week, felling a host of cold records across Alberta, B.C. and Sask.:

ALBERTA

Nine record lows were broken in Alberta Thursday morning, adding to the 33 set Wednesday.

Serving as two examples, the Edmonton region, the Stony Plain weather station bottomed out at -23.8C, busting the old record of -21C set in 1966 (solar minimum of cycle 19); while Rocky Mountain House was one of the province’s coldest spots, with Thursday’s -28.9C besting the previous benchmark of -26.7C from 1986 (solar minimum of cycle 21) .

Also worth noting –and not included in the list of record lows below, which comes courtesy of Environment and Climate Change Canada– the city of Edmonton logged -21C this week, making it the metropolitan area’s earliest sub -20C during the first 10 days of November since 1991.

Sundre Area

• New record of -28.1
• Old record of -26.9 set in 2019
• Records in this area have been kept since 1993

Stony Plain Area

• New record of -23.8
• Old record of -21.0 set in 1985
• Records in this area have been kept since 1966

Rocky Mountain House Area

• New record of -28.9
• Old record of -26.7 set in 1986
• Records in this area have been kept since 1915

Barrhead Area

• New record of -27.8
• Old record of -27.2 set in 1940
• Records in this area have been kept since 1912

Whitecourt Area

• New record of -24.4
• Old record of -21.8 set in 2019
• Records in this area have been kept since 1942

Brooks Area

• New record of -27.2
• Old record of -26.0 set in 2019
• Records in this area have been kept since 1912

Drumheller Area

• New record of -25.0
• Old record of -23.8 set in 2019
• Records in this area have been kept since 1923

B.C.

Thirteen temperature records were toppled –often slain– across B.C. on Wednesday (more fell on Thursday but I have yet to compile the list).

This early onset of polar cold is due, according to Global Okanagan meteorologist Peter Quinlan, to an arctic high-pressure system parked over the Rockies.

“(It) is funneling in the frigid air, pushing an arctic front south of the area,” explained Quinlan. “The result has been record-breaking cold over the B.C. Interior.”

The oldest record broken was in Salmon Arm, which busted the low set more than a century ago, in 1911 (solar minimum of cycle 14–during The Centennial Minimum).

According to Environment Canada records, it seems that the previous comparable cold snap this early in the season was back in 1986 (again, solar min of cycle 21); at least, that’s when the majority of the previous temperature records were set.

I won’t bother listing all 13 fallen benchmarks, just a select few (it’s bloody cold: you get the idea):

…AND ELSEWHERE

Heavy snowfall is accumulating to the east, too.

Utah’s Atla mountain (pictured below) has already hit 100 inches of snow this Fall–more than a week before opening, too.

Over the past three weeks, the resort has seen a flurry of winter storms dump double-digit totals, with 32 inches building over the last 48 hours alone. Alta is also reporting a settled base depth of 62 inches, which is astounding, and record-breaking.

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