The heatwave baking Western Canada could shatter a decades-old record for the highest temperature ever recorded in the country.
On July 5, 1937, a temperature of 45 C was recorded in the towns of Midale, Sask. and Yellowgrass, Sask. – the highest temperature ever recorded in Canada.
Already, 67 communities in Alberta, British Columbia and Northwest Territories set daily maximum temperature records on Saturday. “For climatologists like myself, you get kind of excited by breaking a record,” Phillips told CTVNews.ca over the phone. “We mostly break records by a 10th of a degree. But these records we’re setting are huge. They’re often by two or three degrees.”
The climatologist also points out that the these temperature readings are collected in the shade and that out in the sun, the heat feels so much more intense.
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