Grande Prairie was the coldest its been on March 6th in more than sixty years yesterday, when the temperature dropped to minus 34.5 degrees.
That’s 0.6 degrees colder than the previous record of minus 33.9 set in 1951.
The unofficial record also doesn’t account for the wind chill factor, which dropped below minus 40.
The old came in the early morning, but the day eventually warmed up to a high of around minus 15.