Temperature Records Broken in Manitoba

Aside from the thunderstorms across southern Manitoba on Friday, there was also some very warm temperatures.

A hot air mass accompanied by strong and gusty southerly winds, ushered in new and near-record high temperatures for southern Manitoba.

On Friday, only one record was broken, two others were nearly broken.

Gretna

New record of 35.0

Old record of 34.4 set in 1961

Records started in 1955

Gimli

Near-record of 32.4

Record of 32.7 set in 1988

Records started in 1944

Winnipeg

Near-record of 36.6

Record of 36.8 set in 1988

Records started in 1872

Based on ECCC Data