Mild Sunday over southern MB

After an unseasonably cold first half of October, temperatures finally climbed to above normal values over southern MB today with afternoon highs of 15-20C under partly sunny skies. Winnipeg reached a high of 16C, with 20C temperatures recorded over southwest MB, mainly south of Highway 2 in places like Melita, Boissevain, Glenboro, Treherne as far east as Carman. In fact, Melita was the national hot spot today at 21.6C. It was even warmer south of the border with temperatures reaching a summerlike 80F (27C) in Bismarck ND. At Winnipeg, the 16C reading was the warmest day of the month so far, and the first day with temperatures in double digits since Oct 3rd. The mild weather will be short lived however as a cold front moves through tonight, dropping temperatures back into the single digits for the rest of the week.