So spot on, in fact, that four records for daily minimum cold temperatures were set from Thursday, Feb, 11 through Sunday, Feb. 14.
That brought the total of cold weather records set in the city through the first two weeks of the month to five, marking one of the longest stretches of record-setting cold in February since a similar snap in 1994.
The first record to fall came on Monday, Feb. 8, where the overnight low was the coldest in 77 years, hitting -35.8 C degrees to barely nip the old mark of -35.6 C.
Then came Family Day weekend.
It all began Thursday, Feb. 11, when the low of -34.4 C took a full degree off the former record of -33.3 C set in 1944. The following night was no better, with the overnight low on Friday, Feb. 12 hitting -33.2 C, breaking the old mark of -32.2 C from 1975.
The weekend proper got off with a bang — the low hit -37.5 C on the evening of Saturday, Feb. 13, smashing the former record of -31.5 from 1970. Things were only a little better on Valentine’s Day, but not enough the save that record from falling, too, with the low of -34.5 C breaking the -31.7 C set in 1967.
We finally caught a break on Sunday, Feb. 15, when the overnight low was ‘only’ -31.2 C, well off the -34.6 record from 1979.
Normal temperatures for this time of year are in the -4.8 C range for the daytime high, and -15.0 C for the overnight low.
