Warm day breaks century-old record

Winnipeggers enjoyed a warm November day Thursday that shattered a century-old record. 

The mercury topped out at + 9.7 degrees Celsius, shattering the previous record for November 24^th of + 7.2 degrees set in 1907. 

Many people were out enjoying the unseasonably warm weather just a month before Christmas Eve, with hardly any snow on the ground. 

“It’s like spring it’s great, no mitts!” One woman jogging through Assiniboine Park said as she went by.  

It is a big change from the year before. On the same date last year, the temperature reached a high of only -4. And 14 centimetres of snow fell – part of a weeks-long dumping of the white stuff that eventually left more than 55 cm on the ground by the end of November 2010.