{"id":934301,"date":"2026-10-15T19:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T19:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/934301\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T19:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T19:38:13","slug":"official-canada-records-first-30c-reading-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/934301\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: Canada records first -30\u00b0C reading of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canada recorded its first -30\u00b0C temperature of the season early Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

The frigid reading came from Isachsen, Nunavut, marking the first instance of temperatures dipping this low since April 27, 2026, when -30\u00b0C was recorded in Rea Point, NU.<\/p>\n

\"Baron<\/p>\n

This cold snap is linked to the edge of the polar vortex<\/a>, which has briefly extended into Canada while its core remains centred over Siberia.<\/p>\n

DON’T MISS: El Ni\u00f1o vs. the polar vortex: Canada\u2019s winter wild card is waking up<\/a><\/p>\n

However, Canadians should not expect this Arctic air to plunge further south.<\/p>\n

\"Baron<\/p>\n

While colder air is expected to shift across eastern Canada this weekend<\/a> due to troughing, the main concentration of the polar vortex will stay on the opposite side of the hemisphere through the rest of this month.<\/p>\n

WATCH: Will El Ni\u00f1o impact the polar vortex this winter in Canada?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada recorded its first -30\u00b0C temperature of the season early Thursday morning. The frigid reading came from Isachsen,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44,132791,5097,104631],"class_list":["post-934301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-polar-vortex","tag-temperatures","tag-wind-chill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}