Yesterday was a spring scorcher across B.C. and the records continued to fall on the Island and across BC
Victoria, Campbell River, Tofino and Nanaimo were among the record highs set in the province for June 12 and noted by Environment Canada on Wednesday night.
“New daily high temperature records were set [Wednesday] thanks to a very strong ridge of high pressure,” Environment Canada noted in a weather summary.
B.C.’s hot spot was Lytton, which also had Canada’s highest temperature of the day yesterday at 36.2 C.
Weather records broken on Wednesday:
Abbotsford: 31.9 C (28.5 C in 1999)
Agassiz: 33.0 C (31.1 C in 1932)
Campbell River: 30.0 C (28.7 C in 1982)
Chilliwack: 33.0 C (32.2 C in 1932)
Victoria (Gonzales Point): 30.0 C (28.8 C in 2002)
Hope: 32.5 C (28.4 C in 2002)
Malahat area: 29.2 C (26.6 C in 2002)
Nanaimo: 32.0 C (30.6 C in 1932)
Pitt Meadows: 31.7 C (31.1 C in 1932)
Powell River: 29.0 C (28.3 C in 1932)
Princeton: 33.0 C (32.8 C in 1918)
Squamish: 31.4 C (27.0 C in 1999)
Tofino: 27.0 C (26.7 C in 1936)
Vancouver: 29.1 C (27.4 C in 1999)
Victoria: 29.6 C (28.9 C in 1932)
White Rock: 30.9 C (29.4 C in 1932)
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