Canada‘s extreme cold warning: -55°C! In just a few minutes, the B.C. woman was…
Recently, some Canadian provinces are being hit by a polar cold spell, with rare low temperatures. The extremely cold weather even led to the death of a woman on her way Home, where the temperature was reported to have reached -41°C. The tragedy occurred in Dawson Creek, northern British Columbia, where, according to vicnews, a 68-year-old woman returned from her next-door neighbor’s house and collapsed in front of her house, just a few minutes away from each other. Local RCMP confirmed that police responded to a 911 call at 10:50 a.m. on Feb. 7 and later found the woman’s remains outside her residence.
According to police, the woman had been a guest at a neighbor’s house the night before the incident (Feb. 6) and had been drinking, leaving at 1 a.m. the next day to return to her home, not expecting the cold weather to brew tragedy in a matter of minutes. Meteorological data shows that the temperature in Dawson Creek dropped to -42.2°C in the early hours of February 7. Police warned that exposure to extreme cold temperatures for just a few minutes would be Life-threatening. So people need to take certain warmth measures when they go out, including adding clothes, avoiding going out alone, and keeping in touch with friends and relatives when they go out.
According to reports, the cold front from the Arctic will bring the average temperature in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia down to minus 10°C in the coming week. the Met Office has issued a low temperature warning, saying the region will see the coldest weather this winter. Meteorologist Michael Kuss says temperatures will likely reach record lows this Thursday and Friday. “It will break Vancouver International Airport’s record low temperature of minus 6.7°C in 1948.”
The “polar cyclone” phenomenon that hit western Canada on Sunday sent temperatures to the lowest in Canada in years. According to RCI, a total of 22 low temperature records were broken in central Canada’s Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba provinces. The temperature in Uranium City, located 1045 kilometers northwest of Regina, was even as low as -48.9°C. According to a low temperature warning issued by Meteorological Services of Canada, the severe cold will remain in the region for the next week.
The lowest temperature in Alberta was at Fort Chipewyan, 710 km northwest of Edmonton, where the temperature dropped to -47.3°C, breaking the 1936 record low (-45.6°C); the lowest temperature at Edmonton International Airport was -43.8°C, just 0.1°C higher than the record low. In Manitoba, the “warmest” province in comparison, Roblin, located 405 km northwest of Winnipeg, set a new low temperature record of -42°C. On the same day, the temperature in Wekweèti, Northwest Territories, was as low as -51.9°C, setting the lowest temperature in Canada since March 2017.
On February 8, the wind chill index temperature in areas such as Edmonton and Calgary, Alberta, including the very popular travel destination Banff National Park, even reached -55°C. Due to the low temperatures, school buses were shut down in most cities in the region and some schools announced the closure of classes.
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