WATCH ABOVE: Mike Sobel’s Morning News forecast on Friday, December 12, 2014.
EDMONTON – Unusually warm conditions resulted in temperature records across Alberta this week, with a number of different communities seeing historic day time highs over a couple of different days.
“The jetstream has played a huge role in our record breaking temperatures this week,” said Global Edmonton’s chief meteorologist, Nicola Crosbie.
“When a big ridge in the jet occurs over Alberta, all the warm air from the south and southwest can stream in.”
And that is exactly what happened on Tuesday, as Edmonton climbed up to a December 9 record of 12.7°C which beat out the previous record which was 10.6°C set in 1890.
After Edmonton’s temperatures fluctuated in the mid-morning hours Thursday, it did not look as though we would break the December 11 record of 9.7°C, which was set back in 2005. But we sure did get close.
“After a very bumpy start, the southwest winds kicked in today. By mid-morning our Thursday temperature hit 9.2 degrees,” Crosbie said.
While much of Alberta basked in the unseasonably warm conditions this week, the west and east coasts of Canada were being pummelled by heavy rains in the west and a strong nor’easter to the east.
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“The very wet weather on the west coast has also helped out with the warm weather. All the warm air heads over the Rockies, just for our benefit.”
However, all good things must come to an end. The good news is that for the foreseeable future, Edmonton is looking to see temperatures above the seasonal average of -6°.
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