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Arctic air continues to descend unusually-far south, while Antarctic air continues to ride anomalously-far north. The culprit is low solar activity, namely its weakening of the jet streams, and the upshot is COOLING across the lower-latitudes (where us humans reside).

AUSTRALIA Swathes of Australia are shivering through a record-breaking cold snap, with the frosty mornings set to continue across eastern parts through the weekend.

The mercury in Sydney dropped to 8.6C (47.5F) at 7am early Thursday, marking the fifth-straight day of mornings below 9C (48.2F).

Not since the year 1967 has Sydney experienced a colder streak in May.

Back then, the temperature fell below 9C (48.2F) for six nights in a row.

In addition, not only was this the city’s coldest run of May nights in 54 years, it was “the coldest run of nights this early in the year in 66 years,” a Bureau of Meteorology spokesperson said.

In Sydney’s west, it was just 1C (33.8F) in Camden, 2C (35.6F) in Campbelltown, 3C (37.4F) in Penrith and 5C (41F) at Olympic Park.

It’s been a cold week across much of Canada, too.

In Kamloops and the Okanagan, British Columbia record-breaking overnight lows have been logged.

A return to near-zero temperatures was observed overnight, a stark contrast to the daytime highs of 30C (86F) witnessed this past weekend (another example of the Grand Solar Minimum and the Swings between Extremes).

A myriad of cold temperature records fell on the morning of May 19, according to Environment Canada data.

Kamloops recorded a low of 1.3C (34.3F) at its airport, a reading which smashed the previous benchmark of 2.1C (35.8F) set back in 2003.

While Penticton plunged to a low of -0.8C (30.5F), also annihilating its old record of 0.3C (32.5F), also set in 2003.

Environment Canada meteorologist Doug Lundquist said hopefully it wasn’t “cold enough for long enough” to do any frost damage to recently planted summer crops.

Arctic air continues to descend unusually-far south, while Antarctic air continues to ride anomalously-far north. The culprit is low solar activity, namely its weakening of the jet streams, and the upshot is COOLING across the lower-latitudes (where us humans reside). AUSTRALIA Swathes of Australia are shivering through a record-breaking cold snap, with the frosty mornings set to continue across eastern parts through the weekend. The mercury in Sydney dropped to 8.6C (47.5F) at 7am early Thursday, marking the fifth-straight day of mornings below 9C (48.2F). Not since the year 1967 has Sydney experienced a colder streak in May. Back then, the temperature fell below 9C (48.2F) for six nights in a row. In addition, not only was this the city’s coldest run of May nights in 54 years, it was “the coldest run of nights this early in the year in 66 years,” a Bureau of Meteorology spokesperson said. In Sydney’s west, it was just 1C (33.8F) in Camden, 2C (35.6F) in Campbelltown, 3C (37.4F) in Penrith and 5C (41F) at Olympic Park. It’s been a cold week across much of Canada, too. In Kamloops and the Okanagan, British Columbia record-breaking overnight lows have been logged. A return to near-zero temperatures was observed overnight, a stark contrast to the daytime highs of 30C (86F) witnessed this past weekend (another example of the Grand Solar Minimum and the Swings between Extremes). A myriad of cold temperature records fell on the morning of May 19, according to Environment Canada data. Kamloops recorded a low of 1.3C (34.3F) at its airport, a reading which smashed the previous benchmark of 2.1C (35.8F) set back in 2003. While Penticton plunged to a low of -0.8C (30.5F), also annihilating its old record of 0.3C (32.5F), also set in 2003. Environment Canada meteorologist Doug Lundquist said hopefully it wasn’t “cold enough for long enough” to do any frost damage to recently planted summer crops.

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[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

All fine here in Albeerta. We normally have a nice early May and then it goes to shit and is nice again after may long weekend.

For those of you who don't know, May long is the traditional celebration of Albeertans for the coming summer. This is where you use the long weekend to do summer things and know in the back of your mind it might snow a bit on you. It's supper fun and leads to great experiences like having to jack the heat all the way up in the camper, or waking up in your tent and being covered in snow. The snow melts pretty quick, sometimes there is so much rain and snow before the long weekend and during it, that fire bans are temporarily lifted.

Yes it snowed two days ago and it might again. But after this weekend we can put our plants in our gardens without them dieing.

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Correct, Alberta is famous for a few days of Cold snow as late as June, and Guaranteed a Chinook in the January or February.

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Buddy tells me it's global warming, I tell him to go jump in the lake.

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Thanks for that info on life in Alberta. Sounds like fun. When does the summer end? Mid July? :)

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September it starts to cool off. But it can get warm again in October and we call that an Indian summer. All Halloween costumes are planned to be able to fit over a snow suit just incase.

We get heat waves and get to enjoy the dog days of summer. Low 30's Celsius is our heat wave. But we have seen it climb to 40. That doesn't happen every summer. Just like how our cold snaps can got down to -30 C without windchill. and sometimes -40 without wind chill.

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All Halloween costumes are planned to be able to fit over a snow suit just in case.

Now that is funny. I can see a pumpkin outfit working but not a Cinderella costume. :)

-40 without wind chill

I remember both scale F and C meeting somewhere around -40. That's cold!