Recordwatch: January 2, 2019

So on the one hand, I always like to stress that warm temperatures in January in Edmonton happen all of the time, aren't all that rare.

But on the other hand, January 2 really was so warm that it set some new records:

With a Low of 1.2°C it easily broke the previous record for warmest-since-1880 Low, which had been -1.1°C from way back in 1889.

And with a High of 8.6°C it broke the previous warmest-since-1880 High of 8.2°C from 1984.