“A strong upper ridge continued to produce record breaking temperatures across a large portion of Alberta on Thursday that felt more like a mid-summer heat wave than mid-spring.'
More than three dozen heat records were broken Thursday across much of Alberta, according to Environment Canada.
“A strong upper ridge continued to produce record breaking temperatures across a large portion of Alberta on Thursday that felt more like a mid-summer heat wave than mid-spring,” said Environment Canada. The hottest place in Alberta was Fort McMurray, which reached 32.5 C – only half a degree cooler than the hottest place in the country, which was Lytton, B.C., at 33 C.The last time Fort McMurray got that hot was in 2016, when it reached almost 32 C and a fire tore through part of the municipality.Some areas saw a jump of up to 5 degrees – Slave Lake was 31 C, breaking a 90-year record of 25 C. The Red Earth Creek Area was 28.2 C, breaking a record of 23 C set in 2016.
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