Early fall brings summer temperatures and new record high
Posted Sep 26, 2011 05:08:05 AM.
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The first few days of autumn feel a lot more like summer.
Temperatures topped 26 degrees in Halifax Sunday, setting a new temperature record for the date and prompting scores of people to flock to local beaches for a day of soaking up the sun.
News 95.7 meterologist Richard Zurawski says it wasn’t a fluke, noting the the long range forecast shows a warmer than average autumn season with more hot or mild days than typical leading up to Christmas.
He says that’s becoming a trend.
“We’ve not set any record cold temperatures in at least four years,” he said. “We’ve set so many record high temperatures, my feeling is that it’s probably not an anomaly and it has something to do with climate change.”
Although Nova Scotians may welcome the warm weather after a summer that was largely a non-event, Zurawski says there’s a downside to the warm weather.
“Remember, part of the climate change thing is also more turbulent weather and this is a very, very active hurricane season,” he said. “We’ve got two more and Phillipe has just become a tropical storm, so it’s there as well as Ophelia.”
Environment Canada shows a new record high was set sunday when the temperature soared to 24.4 degrees at Halifax Stanfield International Airport. at Shearwater, the high reached 26.6 degrees.
The highest temperature in Canada was 35.4 degrees, set at Leader Airport in Saskatchewan.
