November 9 sets records in back to back years, going from hot to cold

Temperatures in November 2016 were the warmest on record in the City of Winnipeg with record highs being set around the province on multiple occasions. It’s still early in November 2017 but so far the temperatures are feeling like polar opposites.

November 9, 2016 was the warmest day of the month last year, reaching a high of 18.8 C. Winnipeg broke the previous record of 14.4 C set back in 1923. Around the rest of province, 20 other records were broken.

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In 2017, November temperatures are setting records for the opposite reason. Temperatures have been well below normal on a consistent basis, and on a day where a year before Winnipeg saw temperatures reach a record high, this year the city has set a new record low.

Early Thursday morning, temperatures at the airport registered -23.7 C beating the record low of -20.6 C set back in 1933 and later tied in 1966.

The other notable record low recorded Thursday morning was in Brandon at -26.3 C  beating the old record of -25.0 C from 1966.

It looks like the cold is here to stay in Manitoba with a La Nina set up in the Pacific Ocean. You can see Global’s Chief Meteorologist- Anthony Farnell’s winter forecast here: Anthony Farnell’s winter forecast: What’s in store for Canadians

Meteorologist Jay Anderson said it could be a more chilly winter.

“Environment Canada is giving us a November, December, January of below normal temperatures,” he said.

That cold weather doesn’t mean the winter fun will be starting up much sooner at The Forks. The skating trails, rinks and toboggan hills likely won’t be open until late December.

“We really need consistent two weeks of really cold temperatures of -10 C and below and making that consistent before we really start to flood and make skating trails,” Chelsea Thomson from The Forks said.