Humidity, high temperatures in Halifax not expected to last

Halifax is waking up to heavy rain, strong winds and nearly record-breaking temperatures in the city this morning — but it won’t last for long.

The record high for this day in Halifax was set at 17 degrees back in 2002, and News 95.7’s meteorologist Richard Zurawski said 12 years later, we might surpass it.

“It looks like we’re into a warm sector and some very, very moist air with this,” he said. “We’ve got some heavy rainfall, fog patches, and winds are gusting to 70 kilometres an hour, and we’re close to record temperatures. So far, we’ve not set a record either yesterday or today, but we are very, very close.”

Throughout the night and into this morning, we’ve gotten almost 40 millimetres of rain, but Zurawski said this weather isn’t the side-effects of a hurricane.

“It’s a low pressure system that’s moved along the Eastern Seaboard and South of the Great Lakes.”

However, he said the humidity will be leaving the region just as quickly as it came.

“By mid-morning, once that cold front comes through, we’re going to see a dramatic change in things.”

He said temperatures are supposed to drop right back down to zero degrees later this evening, with a slight chance of flurries overnight.

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