HOT Day Saturday

Seine River in south Winnipeg this afternoon. Water levels low

     Winnipeg hit 29.6°C Saturday, just shy of the old record of 30.0°C in 1905. The hot spot in Manitoba was Carman at 30.4°C.

     This type of weather makes it hard to believe that we hit 31.1°C on October 5 of last year!!

     The heat Saturday was also a very dry heat as relative humidity dropped to around 20%. The drought conditions are only continuing as no significant rainfall is expected in the near future.

     Many records were broken in other parts of Manitoba Saturday. Some records in northern Manitoba were broken by as much as 8°C:

                        New      old     record  records
Location               record   record    year    began
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Churchill cs           24.0     15.6      1962    1932
Fisher Branch          29.3     24.6      1995    1977
Gillam arpt            25.7     18.9      1948    1943
Gimli                  27.4     25.6      1948    1944
Gretna                 29.3     27.8      2007    1955
Island Lake arpt       25.0     19.0      2001    1971
Lynn Lake arpt         24.0     20.6      1962    1952
Norway House arpt      23.0     20.7      2007    1897
Pinawa                 27.7     26.5      2001    1964
Sprague                28.5     27.2      1943    1915
Swan River             28.9     26.7      1976    1908
The Pas                27.6     23.9      1948    1910
Thompson arpt          26.3     18.3      1967    1967

 Melita                 29.5     29.3      2007    1994