Edmonton weather for Oct. 31: Record cool Halloween? [Video]

It’s shaping up to be a slightly cooler-than-average Halloween in Edmonton. But, it could end up being the chilliest Halloween in over a decade.

Temperatures will get to 3 or 4 C for an afternoon high and the 30-year average high is 5.2 C.

In the past decade, almost every Oct. 31 has been warmer than that long-term average.

In fact, the 10-year average high for Oct. 31 is 6.4 C and the last time Edmonton had an afternoon high below 5 C on Oct. 31 was in 2017.

Daytime highs for Oct 31

• 2023: 7 C
• 2022: 8 C
• 2021: 6 C
• 2020: 6 C
• 2019: 5 C
• 2018: 8 C
• 2017: 4 C
• 2016: 5 C
• 2015: 10 C
• 2014: 5 C

You have to go all the way back to 2012 to find the last time Halloween had a daytime high below 0 C.

It was -7 C on Oct. 31, 2012.

Earlier this week, it was looking …