Maritimes communities break heat records, some standing for more than a century

A woman carries her dog through a water fountain on the Halifax Waterfront in Halifax on Thursday, July 6, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese

HALIFAX - Temperatures soared across the Maritimes on Friday, with some areas breaking records for the day that have been in place for more than a 100 years. 

Environment Canada says Saint John, N.B., hit 33.6 C on Friday, beating the old record of 31.7 C set way back on July 3, 1887. 

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