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 …