My apologies for the lack of updates this past week, after doing 3 night shifts in a row my sleep schedule was incredibly buggered up. As a result, I’ve been having some very late nights and sleeping through the morning, with other things to get done during the day. I’m starting to readjust now, so hopefully we’ll be good moving forward. Thankfully, since the big storm the weather has been rather blah, so we haven’t missed anything significant. (expand for more)
Moving on to the business at hand, your average temperature for the 1st half of January as as follows:
| Newfoundland | Newfoundland Coast | Labrador | Labrador Coast | ||||
| Avg High | Avg Low | Avg High | Avg Low | Avg High | Avg Low | Avg High | Avg Low |
| -3 to 0 | -12 to -7 | -2 to 0 | -8 to -12 | -17 to -12 | -29 to -22 | -12 to -14 | -23 to -21 |
Looking backwards, we’ve set 7 new record highs since the 1st, continuing the trend from 2024. In fact, if we look at all the 2024 data that I have (Mar 15 to Dec 31), it paints a pretty clear picture.
We set the following records:
- 210 new high records.
- 15 new low records
- 1 all time warm low record (any month)
- 1 all time high record (any month)
- 3 new max highs for the month of June
- 3 new max highs for the month of December
If the climate was remaining the same, you’d expect the balance of record highs and lows to be closer to a 50-50 split. I stress closer because while it would never be 50-50, you shouldn’t be setting 14 times more record highs than you are lows. Combine that with with the all time warm records, and a whole bunch of new monthly records (a lot of which the same ones were broken last year…), and you really have to have your head buried in the sand to not see the trend. Anyway, I’ll stop it at that before I start ranting.
Anyway, the next coming week looks mostly benign and at least more wintry on average than it’s been previously. Even so, solutions are showing another brief thaw being likely for much of the province early next week.