Baby It’s Cold Outside!

FEBRUARY 04, 2023
Frigid temperatures and winds shaped up to be the coldest winter weather event folks in Nova Scotia have experienced in many years, with wind chill temperatures of -36°C, Environment Canada issued an extreme cold warning for the whole province.

The last time we had a similar event was February 2015. During that Arctic air outbreak, we experienced wind chill values drop to the –30 to –35 range across much of Nova Scotia, P.E.I. and New Brunswick.

We have to go back nearly 20 years to January 2004 to find the last time the wind chill dipped below –35 in the Halifax metro area. Wind chill values dropped to –40 in Charlottetown and Saint John the same year.