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Outstanding Weather: Lethbridge sets new record high for March 14

LETHBRIDGE, AB – You know it’s abnormally warm in mid-March when some restaurants in Lethbridge open their patios.

It was a record-setting warm weekend across southern Alberta with a number of communities either tied old high temperature records on Sunday, or set new ones.

In fact, Lethbridge was the provincial hot spot with the mercury climbing to 20.1°C Sunday. That breaks the old record high for March 14th which was 19.3°C set in 2015.

That’s pretty impressive for mid-March, one week shy of the official First Day of Spring.

Other places setting new highs on Sunday included High River and Calgary, with the Crowsnest Pass area setting a new record on Saturday. Waterton Park tied a previous record high on Saturday.

Warmer-than-normal temperatures are expected to continue for a while yet. The average high here for this time of year is around 6.0°C.

The following areas will have set a daily maximum temperature record 
on Sunday March 14, 2021: 

Lethbridge Area (Lethbridge CDA) 
Preliminary new record of 20.1 
Old record of 19.3 set in 2015 
Records in this area have been kept since 190

High River Area (Azure) 
Preliminary new record of 18.5 
Old record of 16.0 set in 1992 
Records in this area have been kept since 1913 

Calgary Area (Calgary Intl A) 
Preliminary new record of 18.7 
Old record of 16.7 set in 1910 
Records in this area have been kept since 1881 

The following areas set or tied a daily maximum temperature record 
on Saturday March 13, 2021:

Crowsnest Area
New record of 16.1 
Old record of 15.5 set in 1992 
Records in this area have been kept since 1965 

Waterton Park Area (Waterton Park Gate) 
Tied record of 15.4 set in 2015 
Records in this area have been kept since 1976
Patrick Siedlecki
Patrick Siedlecki
Pat has been a mainstay in the CJOC News department from the time the station launched in 2007. He's been in the position of News Director since then and has been anchoring daily news casts as well as reporting and working behind the scenes. Community is important to him and keeping CJOC listeners and readers informed about what's happening across southern Alberta and beyond. Pat has been in radio broadcasting for the past 24 years, starting in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in 1997 and then moving up island to Nanaimo for another few years before heading to Lethbridge in 2007. Pat grew up in the small Saskatchewan farming town of Foam Lake. After high school, he went to Western Academy Broadcasting College (WABC) in Saskatoon prior to moving to the island. Pat also spent several years broadcasting hockey in the BCHL as well as seven years as the radio voice of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the WHL. Pat has been working at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Lethbridge as a Certified Life Celebrant and Funeral Assistant since 2016. News and sports have always been Pat's passion from the time he was a teenager and he's always been grateful to have had the opportunity to make that part of what's been a fun and long radio career!
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