Record temperatures in Halifax yesterday
Posted Oct 16, 2014 06:16:13 AM.
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Halifax temperatures reached 24.9 degrees yesterday — the hottest recorded for that day ever, shattering the 1970 record of 21.7 degrees.
News 95.7’s meteorologist Richard Zurawski said Nova Scotia is feeling somewhat of a fall heat wave as a low pressure system moves over the region.
“A very deep, large low-pressure system, and that’s drawing in all the warm weather,” he said. “And the jet stream is dipping down to the south out in the west, and that is pushing way up to the north here and that allowed that humid air to move in from the Gulf of Mexico.”
Zurawski said the warm weather isn’t expected to stop there.
“It looks like the warming trend is going to stick around, pretty much, for the foreseeable future. We’ll start to go above normal temperatures again as we head into the end of October, at least, that’s what the thinking is right now. No real end in sight just yet, so enjoy it.”
Today’s high is set to reach 18 degrees, but Zurawski doesn’t expect that to shatter another record. He says the highest recorded in Halifax for today’s date was 25.6 degrees back in the 1960s.
According to Zurawski, Hurricane Gonzalo isn’t playing much of a role in the hot temperatures we’re getting, and probably won’t affect us too much as it heads for Newfoundland over the weekend.
However, he said surfers can expect a bit of a swell coming in, if they’re planning on catching some waves in Nova Scotia waters on Friday or Saturday.
