Record Breaking Temperatures Canada
Temperature Extremes – Hot and Cold
Snow. Most Canadians see some of this each year!
Record High Temperature – Canada
Canada’s record high temperature, 45 °C (113 °F), was recorded at both Midale and Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan on July 5, 1937.
Record Low Temperature – Canada
Canada’s record low temperature, -63 °C (minus 81 °F), was measured at Snag, Yukon Territory on February 3, 1947.
An Even Lower Temperature, But…
A temperature of -77.5 °C (-108 °F) was recorded on Mount Logan in 1991. This is a record low measurement for the northern hemisphere and the lowest temperature measured outside of Antarctica.
Prior to this, the lowest recorded temperature in the northern hemisphere had been -68 °C (-90 °F) in Verkhoyansk, Siberia.
The Canadian measurement was taken at a height of almost 6000 m on Mount Logan, Canada’s highest mountain. The Siberian measurement was taken at the much lower of elevation of 107 m.
References and Further Reading
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