Winter is still weeks away, but that didn’t stop a BC city from breaking a daily cold weather record that has been in place for over 100 years on Thursday, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada.
That lucky and cold city is Merritt, a small BC town with a population under 10,000. It broke a record set on October 26, 1919, a whopping 104 years ago.
The old record was -8.3ºC, and the preliminary new record is -8.6ºC.
Records in Merritt have been kept since 1918.
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Several other remote BC cities also saw daily weather records broken.
Bella Bella broke a record set in 2008 when temperatures reached -0.6ºC. On Thursday, temperatures hit a frigid -4.2ºC.
Burns Lake broke a record that has been in place for over 50 years. In 1971, temperatures hit -10.6ºC, and on Thursday, they hit -15.4ºC. This was also the coldest record set on Thursday.
The small BC town of Port Hardy hit a new cold weather record of -4.0ºC, beating the previous record of -2.2ºC set in 1970.
A little bit closer to home, in Squamish, temperatures hit -2.5ºC, beating the old record of -1.9ºC set in 2020.
Lastly, Smithers broke a record that was 54 years old. On October 26, 1969, the temperature reached -8.9ºC, and on Thursday, it hit -10.7ºC.
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