September heat wave hits Halifax

Today could be a record-breaker in Halifax.

“Normally we should be looking at temperatures hovering between 16 and 18 degrees for the daytime high,” explained NEWS 95.7 meteorologist Richard Zurawski. “Our guaranteed high today is set at 28 degrees, the last time we approached this was back in 1967, when the old record was set at 26.7 degrees.”

Zurawski said normally records are broken by 10ths of a degree, but to break a temperature record by almost two degrees is almost unprecedented.

“I am calling it a heat wave, it’s probably not July-hot, but it’s certainly hot temperatures approaching 30 degrees,” he said.

He expects a cold front to come through late Saturday or early Sunday, but even then, we’ll still be left with above normal temperatures.

Zurawski said we can thank a Bermuda High along with the Pacific El Nino for the bonus summer weather.