This September could torch temperature records
Posted Sep 26, 2017 05:21:34 AM.
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It has no doubt been a hot September in the region.
With Tuesday’s forecast expected to again be over 30 degrees. That marks five days in a row of temperatures into the 30’s.
University of Waterloo Weather Station Coordinator, Frank Seglenieks says the last time that happened was over 60 years ago.
“That has only happened a few times in the hundred year history in Kitchener-Waterloo, and the last time that happened you might not remember it because it was in 1952.”
Seglenieks adds, temperatures are expected to cool down 10 to 15 degrees by Wednesday when a cool front moves in, but if it doesn’t, a sixth day in September of extreme heat would be a new record.
“Depending on when the cold front comes through on Wednesday, we might even just breach 30 degrees on Wednesday. That would be six days in a row. That would actually be a new record. That would be the most number of 30 degree days in September that we have seen in the hundred years that we have had records in the region.”
Even when it comes to less extreme weather, the region is breaking records.
“It’s the most number of days over 25 degrees in September, we have seen in one hundred years. So, it is not even these extremely high temperatures, but just even these moderately high over 25 days.” Seglenieks added.
