(ORDO NEWS) — Alberta has set 15 new record lows due to the “unseasonably cold” Arctic high pressure front. This is in addition to 26 new lows set over the weekend.
Of the 15 communities with new record lows on Monday, the coldest was Red Deer, where its thermometers dropped to -43.9 ° C (-47 ° F) and broke the city’s previous record of -40.6 ° C (-41F) set by in 1936 (solar minimum cycle 16).
Below is a complete list of Monday’s low temperature records:
Breton
New record -37.5C
Old record -32.0C set in 1994
Cold lake
New record -36.6C
Old record -35.8C set in 1994
Edmonton (at Edmonton International Airport)
New record -40.8C
Old record -35.8C set in 1979
Elk Island National Park
New record -40.9 ° C
Old record -35.6 ° C set in 1979
Hendrickson creek
New record -41.2C
Old record -35.5C set in 2017
High river
New record -33.2C
Old record -33.0C set in 1994
Highvale
New record -33.8 ° C
Old record -32.0 ° C set in 1979
Lac la biche
New record -39.2 ° C
Old record -38.9 ° C set in 1979
Lacombs
New record -40.5C
Old record set -39.4C in 1936
Milk river
New record -32.4C
Old record -31.7C set in 2017
Red deer
New record -43.9C
Old record -40.6C set in 1936
Red earth creek
New record -39.5C
Old record -35.8C set in 2019.
Taber.
New record -35.7C.
The old record was -35.5C, set in 1994.
Vegreville
New record -41.7 ° C
Old record -37.0 ° C set in 1994
Wainwright
New record -37.5 ° C
Old record -36.0C set in 1994.
And on Tuesday night, the province set a new record for electricity consumption when people turned on the heating in their homes.
Alberta Electricity System Operator (AESO) said 11,729 MW of electricity was used at around 7:00 pm on Tuesday, 31 MW higher than the previous record set in January last year.
Currently, 94% of Alberta’s electricity comes from fossil fuels.
Wind energy accounts for 7.7% of the capacity and generates 1.3% of the total output, while solar energy accounts for 0.0% of the capacity and produces 0.000% of the total output.
Canada imports 801 MW or 7.1%
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