Warm weather records broken Friday in Metro Vancouver

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Heat climate data had been smashed as some residents on B.C.’s South Coast basked in temperatures within the mid-to-high teenagers Friday.

Squamish hit a toasty 19.5 C, smashing the outdated report of 17 C set in 1988, in line with Atmosphere and Local weather Change Canada.

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The federal climate company says the Sunshine Coast additionally broke data. Gibsons was a balmy 13.7 C beating the outdated 1996 report of 13 C whereas Sechelt hit 13.7 C, up from 12.5 C the identical 12 months.

Elsewhere, Blue River hit 16.9, breaking the outdated report of 15.9 C set in 1992, whereas Burns Lake set a report by a hair of 11.5 C, up from 11.4 C in 1986, in line with the company. Comparable data had been additionally set within the Smithers, Mackenzie and Puntzi Mountain areas.

Quesnel residents warmed as much as 18.4 C, beating an outdated report of 16.7 C in 1905 whereas these within the Tatlayoko Lake space skilled a report 17. 7 C, up from the 1947 report 16.1 C.

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Nan Lu, a meteorologist with Atmosphere and Local weather Change Canada, stated a ridge of excessive stress over B.C. is creating springtime temperatures, with some within the excessive teenagers.

“The traditional daytime temperature for this time of the 12 months is about 10 C. So proper now, in a few of the areas we’ve 5 to 10 C above seasonal temperatures,” stated Lu.

“We’ve got this very robust ridge of excessive stress that brings heat temperatures and likewise retains the nice and cozy temperatures over our area…So we’ll be persevering with to see dry and sunny, heat temperature over the weekend.”

The nice and cozy and dry climate will probably proceed for the primary a part of spring break by to Wednesday, when it can begin to change to cooler temperatures with just a few showers, she stated.

ticrawford@postmedia.com

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