Canada weather: Warm temperatures break records [Video]

Warm weather in Eastern and Western Canada broke records, including one set more than 100 years ago.

Here’s where temperature records were broken Friday, based on Environment Canada data.

Alberta

In the Grande Prairie area, Friday’s temperature of 12.2 C broke an old record of 10 C set in 1947.

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Friday was the warmest March 15 on record in the Hendrickson Creek area, which saw a high of 12.6 C, a few degrees warmer than the previous record of 11 C set in 2010.

Meanwhile, Nordegg set a new record of 15.4 C, nudging past its old record of 15 C in 1926.

British Columbia

In the Quesnel area, a temperature of 18.4 C beat a record for March 15 that has been in place since 1905. The old record was 16.7 C.

That was the oldest record broken in Canada Friday, but the Tatlayoko area also saw a decades-old record …