And while the debate inside the virtual courtroom today was warm, it was unusually cold outside.
And that's because today was one of the coldest - if not the coldest day of the year so far.
This morning, the MET Service recorded temperatures in the low 50's.
Belizeans across the country pulled out their favorite jacket and took to social media to comment on the unusual chill, but according to one of MET's forecasters, while it is colder than usual, it's nothing new for the month of February.
Shanyea Young, Head of Agro climatic Section, MET Office
"The months of January and February are normally our coolest months and those are normally the coolest months because of the influence of cold fronts or frontal systems that may cross the country. So, it's not unusual for the month of February to be cold, but as you rightly said the minimum temperatures that have been observed at least by our automatic station so far seem to be rather low. We still are in the process of verifying those temperatures and cross checking them with our manual stations, but we haven't received all the data from our out district stations as yet to verify those. At least maybe about 2 stations have received a lower minimum temperature for today and also for the month of February as compared to past years."
"For the automatic stations, in the hills this morning Baldly Beacon recorded around 10 degrees Celsius and for that particular station for February 3rd the minimum previously was about 13.3 degrees Celsius arm our automatic station reported 10.2 degrees Celsius, but in consulting our out-district observer for Central Farm they reported a minimum of 9.3 degrees Celsius. Previously for February 3rd the minimum for Central Farm was 9.4 degrees Celsius and it is not the lowest minimum temperatures that has been recorded for the month of February because the lowest for that station is about 7,8, but for February 3rd this morning minimum value so far seems to be about 0.1 lower than the minimum for February 3rd in previous years. But for the month of February no record was broken because the minimum for this particular station is 7.8 which occurred in 1970."
Young said that there is the possibility of another cold front during the rest of the month that might lead to more low temperatures.
