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© Jason Payne/ PNGRecord-breaking cold temperatures were recorded across the province yesterday.
Matt MacDonald, a meteorologist with the national weather agency, said there were 14 daytime records broken, 18 overnight lows smashed and seven new records for the most snowfall on Oct. 3, including a whopping 59 centimetres of snow in Sparwood, east of Fernie.
He said the front whipped down from the north and clashed with moisture from the Pacific Ocean. MacDonald said more records may be broken overnight, but it's not likely to be as cold as Wednesday.
"We are waking up to some frosty mornings," he said, adding that in Metro Vancouver, although the overnight low was around 2ºC, frost still accumulated on the ground.
The record-breaking temperature for cold in B.C. on Wednesday was Clinton, where -14.2ºC was recorded, smashing the old mark of -5 set in 2012.
A dusting of snow in the mountains Thursday caught people by surprise.
Las Vegas just had the hottest September on record and now four days into October, we're seeing snow.
The cooler weather brought plenty of people up the mountain to enjoy the outdoors.
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
"As of 13:00, October 4, snow fell on Pip Ivan Mountain of the Chornohora mountain range on the border with Ivano-Frankivsk and Zakarpattia regions.
The visibility was up to 50m. The wind was 5-6 m / s.
The temperature was -1°C. The snow cover was up to 0.5m," the Chornohora range search and rescue post reported on its Facebook page.
The mountains around the capital are however already covered with a white dusting of snow and more snow is expected in coming days.
These accompanying images taken by Mbl.is this morning are from Bláfjöll, the Blue Mountains just south of Reykjavik this morning.
They're a popular skiing resort in winter.
© John Entwistle
A NASA photographer has captured a breathtaking image of a rare 'hall of rainbows .'
The phenomenon appeared after Hurricane Florence passed over New Jersey last month.
The incredible rainbows, otherwise known as supernumerary rainbows, faded in an out for around half an hour, much to the delight of the photographer.
Comment: While Hurricane Florence certainly will have created unusual conditions in the region, it's also highly likely that this spectacular sight is just another example of our rapidly changing atmosphere:
- Chemtrails? Contrails? Strange Skies
- Changing atmosphere: Red sprites and a blue jet seen above Europe's stormy skies
- Our changing atmosphere: Stunning iridescent cloud over Mexico, complex solar halo over Russia and a triple rainbow over Norway
- Strange but beautiful skies: Noctilucent 'tornado' cloud, auroras, double and twin rainbow plus a midnight rainbow
- 'Strange' Arctic rainbow and red 'summer' sprites in winter - rare atmospheric events on the increase
- Strange skies: Red Sprites in Oklahoma, aurora Steve in Canada, iridescent clouds in Illinois and noctilucent clouds in Denmark
© The Weather Network
Earthquakes Canada reports that the quake occurred just off the coast in the area of Mavillette, N.S., near Meteghan, at 10:32 a.m.
Tina Helprin, who lives in Saulnierville Station, said she was sitting in her rocking chair in the kitchen when the quake happened.
"All of a sudden in the distance we heard like a rumble, like if it was going to be thunder and it rolled for like two or three seconds and then there was a loud boom and then it rolled again. It finished with another rumble of about two or three seconds," she said.
Helprin said the entire house shook and her border collie, Cree, ran up to her, "petrified."
Just 8 months after what some call one of the worst winters on record. Browning is under a foot of snow. Chairman Davis said snow this early is nothing to the area.
"One year in 1972 it snowed every month of that year. We have experienced that and we have come to accept what we get, it is what it is and we can't change the weather that's one thing we can't change the weather the only thing we can do is adapt."
He said every year is a learning lesson but sometimes its hard to prepare when winter comes so soon.
© New England Aquarium
The whale washed up in the Brant Rock neighborhood, the second in the past two months. The body was first spotted on Sunday floating offshore about six miles east of Scituate. Though a necropsy was done, sharks ate much of the body, making results limited.
The New England Aquarium says 28 known minke whales have died on the east coast this year, including 11 in Massachusetts, eight in Maine, two in New Hampshire and one in Rhode Island.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal oceans agency, says it's an unusual mortality rate for the species.
Minke whales are the smallest of the baleen whales, often spotted during whale watches, but don't often breach.
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