Maritime Temperature Records Shattered On Christmas Day.
HALIFAX – It felt more like spring than Christmas Day in the Atlantic provinces as temperature records were shattered and heavy rain pounded the region.
Environment Canada said it is not unusual to have warm temperatures on Christmas, but it was record-breakingly balmy in some areas of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.
“In the areas that the records have been broken, some of these records go back to the 1950s and 1940s,” said meteorologist Stephen Hatt on Thursday. “Since records have been kept on Christmas Day, some of these temperatures are the highest that we’ve seen.”
Hatt said in Summerside, P.E.I., the temperature climbed to 13 degrees, breaking the previous 50-year-old record of 11 degrees.
In Greenwood, N.S., the temperature soared to 17 degrees, breaking the previous record of 15 degrees. The old record of 13 degrees in Moncton, N.B., was also broken as temperatures reached 16 degrees.
