Brr! Record-breaking cold weather hits Alberta

A stock photo showing winter weather in Canada. (Pixabay/AlainAudet)

The latest wallop of wintery weather in Alberta has led to a dozen new record daytime lows throughout the province, including in Calgary.

Environment and Climate Change Canada says heavy snow and blowing snow impacted most of central and southern Alberta on Monday.

"As the skies cleared, overnight low temperatures fell significantly, resulting in new daily minimum temperature records set this morning," said a Tuesday summary from the national weather agency.

In Calgary, the daytime temperature dipped to -22.5 C at Canada Olympic Park on Tuesday, breaking an old record of -19 C.

Of the communities with new daily minimum temperatures, the coldest was Bow Valley, which saw temperatures drop to -31.7 C, breaking the previous record of -28.9 C.

New daily minimum temperature records set in Alberta on Nov. 8:

Bow Valley Provincial Park

Calgary (Olympic Park)

Cochrane

Elk Island

Hendrickson Creek

High River

Highvale

Lloydminster

Milk River

Sundre

Wainwright

Waterton Park

Breton, meanwhile, tied its previous record of -23.3 C set in 1940.

Records in Breton have been kept since 1939.