Temperature records broken in the Northwest Territories

When you think of warm weather, you don't typically think of northern areas of Canada, but the Northwest Territories broke several temperature records on Saturday.

Some stations reached nearly 40 degrees setting new temperature records.

Fort Good Hope Area

New record of 37.4

Old record of 35.0 set in 1920

Records in this area have been kept since 1908

Norman Wells Area

New record of 37.9

Old record of 35.0 set in 1989

Records in this area have been kept since 1943

Deline Area

New record of 31.3

Old record of 30.2 set in 2017

Records in this area have been kept since 1974

Fort Good Hope Area

New record of 37.4

Old record of 33.7 set in 2017

Records in this area have been kept since 1908

Fort Liard Area

New record of 34.8

Old record of 30.3 set in 2013

Records in this area have been kept since 1973

Nahanni Butte Area

New record of 35.9

Old record of 34.0 set in 2017

Records in this area have been kept since 1957

Norman Wells Area

New record of 37.9

Old record of 34.3 set in 2017

Records in this area have been kept since 1943

Paulatuk Area

New record of 29.6

Old record of 27.0 set in 1990

Records in this area have been kept since 1985

Wrigley Area

New record of 35.8

Old record of 33.9 set in 1953

Records in this area have been kept since 1943

Not all the temperature records reported here are from the same station but have been derived from a selection of historical stations in each geographic area that were active during the period of record.

Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada