Early season heat breaks records in a dozen B.C. communities

One-day temperature records fell over the weekend as much of B.C. baked under unseasonably hot sunshine.

“Sunday was the peak of the heat with a dozen new temperature records set around the province, including Pitt Meadows at 32.3 degrees and Lytton at over 39 degrees,” said 1130 NewsRadio Meteorologist Michael Kuss.

“Pitt Meadows set a record high for June 8 that stood for over 120 years, and it remains way above average through Monday. We will get cooling by the end of the week, but that is still a couple of days out,” he explained.

Abbotsford set a new record for June 8 at 31 degrees. The old record was 30 degrees, observed in 1955. Squamish, Whistler, Pemberton also broke daily records, along with Kamloops, Penticton, and Princeton.

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