Winnipeg just had its hottest day in May, breaking 67-year record

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· Posted: May 12, 2025 6:34 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

Monday acceptable a caller grounds for the hottest time successful May successful Winnipeg, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada.

Parts of confederate Manitoba and confederate Saskatchewan are successful the mediate of a vigor question — the archetypal successful Canada this year. ECCC says a somesthesia of 33.8 C was recorded adjacent the Winnipeg Richardson International Airport astatine 3 p.m. Monday.

That's 1 grade higher than the erstwhile record in May 1958, according to the upwind agency.

"This could beryllium the warmest infinitesimal of the full summer, and we inactive person 40 days to go," David Phillips, a climatologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada told CBC News connected Monday.

"This is rather exceptional. Temperatures successful Winnipeg should beryllium a precocious of astir 19 C."

The cities of Steinbach and Portage la Prairie, arsenic good as the towns of Melita and Emerson, are among respective areas successful Manitoba that also recorded caller daytime highs connected Sunday, according to Natalie Hasell, a informing preparedness meteorologist with ECCC.

Historically, Manitoba has experienced astir fractional a time with temperatures supra the 30 C mark, she said.

The upwind bureau has besides predicted beneath mean precipitation for Manitoba successful the months of May, June and July, she said, adding that hotter and drier than mean conditions are not a bully operation for farmers oregon wildfire prevention.

"This does not bode good considering however the play has already manifested with these precise blistery temperatures."

Manitoba has gotten a 3rd of the precipitation it usually sees this clip of year, Phillips says.

The concern tin crook deadly quick, helium says, with information showing that much lives are apt to beryllium mislaid successful the archetypal seasonal vigor waves successful places similar Europe and North America.

"Fires were a lukewarm play benignant of phenomenon," helium said.

"You wouldn't speech astir it until schoolhouse was retired successful July and August, possibly September — but now, it's a year-round conflict that we're seeing."