It may have seemed that Mother Nature played an early April Fool’s Day joke on Prince George residents with a colder than normal temperature.
Environment Canada Meteorologist, Doug Lundquist told MyPGNow.com while the overnight low dipped into the minus teens it wasn’t quite record-breaking.
“I saw that it got down to about minus 16 last night and the records for this time of year are in the minus twenty-two to the minus twenty-five-degree range so nowhere near a record, it was very cold, to say the least as it was twelve degrees below average for an overnight minimum.”
Lundquist also explained what’s causing the recent cold spell.
“We had arctic air move in from the Yukon and Northwest Territories across our area and it gives us a little bit of a taste of a deep-freeze, it is possible during the spring to get a little bit of an outbreak but we don’t get anywhere close to the minus forty we get during the winter.”
Conditions are expected to gradually warm up the rest of the week, with a predicted a high of plus nine for Monday.
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