Temp Record Broken
Prince George, B.C. – If you didn’t know better, you might have thought today was more like October than December.
The temperature in Prince George hit a balmy 11.9 degrees today. That shattered the old record high for December 9th set back in 1925 when the temperature climbed to 7.8 degrees.
Prince George isn’t done with the above normal temps just yet.
Environment Canada Meteorologist John MacIntyre says the low pressure system that brought the warm air into the region will continue to move up the coast and will weaken by late Thursday. Temperatures will settle back into the normal seasonal ranges come Friday.
The downside to the warmth was the thunderstorm and rain that pounded the city late this afternoon. The gusty winds also knocked trees on to power lines causing numerous power outages in the area.
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Blimey!
We got a chinook.
Seamut, yer right, we do!
What frustrates me is I saw 0ver 50 below F, in the 60’s, historical records don’t show that, and the outdoor thermometers they sell these days don’t even go that far down.
But, it’s nice, don’t have to shovel squat.
Wow ! 6:00 pm and it says its plus 6 and sunny.
Have we had thunder and lightning in December before?
A brief, very strong wind, at 3:30 pm, today, Tuesday afternoon knocked out power to the Dawson Road area of the Hart, broke half a tree off in my yard and did considerable damage to the skirting of my doublewide home. Wednesday will be a repair day for sure. For now, things are patched up for the night and preliminary chainsaw work has been done on the downed tree.
that was quite the storm that passed over around 3:00 pm. lost power for 4.5 hrs.
Grizzly, people confuse wind chill with real temperatures. We had wind chills down to minus 70 in the Bowron Valley back in the 80s but that was only a bit lower than -40 on the thermometer. But we still had to use tiger torches and parachutes every night on equipment
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