Six B.C. communities noticed record-breaking heat on Thanksgiving Monday, bringing the entire variety of high-temperature records broken across the province over the long weekend to 37.
Kelowna and Penticton had been among the many communities that skilled their hottest Oct. 10 on report, every exceeding temperatures of 25 C, in line with preliminary information from Environment Canada.
The oldest-standing report to fall Monday was in Cache Creek, the place temperatures reached 28.2 C, shattering the earlier excessive of 24.4 set in 1945.
Unseasonably heat climate additionally noticed 15 records broken in B.C. communities on Saturday, and 16 on Sunday. Some areas skilled record-breaking climate on a number of dates, together with Squamish, Hope and the resort group of Whistler.
The full record of temperature records set Monday contains, in alphabetical order:
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Cache Creek space – new report of 28.2, outdated report of 24.4 set in 1945 -
Clinton space – new report of twenty-two.6, outdated report of 20.5 set in 1991 -
Kelowna space – new report of 25.3, outdated report of 23.5 set in 1991 -
Pemberton space – new report of 25.2, outdated report of 21.4 set in 1988 -
Penticton space – new report of 25.6, outdated report of 23.4 set in 1991 -
Sechelt space – new report of 20.1, outdated report of 19.5 set in 1988
Two communities additionally tied a earlier heat report over the long weekend. Puntzi Mountain matched its earlier Oct. 8 report of twenty-two.8 C set in 1971, and Sechelt matched its earlier Oct. 10 report of 19.5 C set in 1988.
(*37*) records have been broken and tied in communities across the province for weeks, throughout a interval of unusually heat and dry climate that has prolonged the wildfire season and created extreme drought circumstances in some areas.
Dozens of latest wildfires have been sparked over the final week, and far of the province remained underneath “excessive” or “excessive” fireplace threat as of Tuesday morning – although Julia Caranci of the B.C. Wildfire Service famous that fires do not behave as aggressively this time of yr.
“We are nonetheless seeing fireplace begins proper now for October, which is considerably uncommon, and so are the dry circumstances – nonetheless, I’ll say that preventing fires in October is a really totally different factor than preventing fires in August,” mentioned Caranci, a hearth info officer for the Coastal Fire Centre.
One of the most recent fires broke out Sunday east of Grand Forks, and could possibly be seen by travellers on Highway 3 over the weekend. Officials mentioned there was little unfold for the reason that blaze grew to about 151 hectares, and that the flames have but to threaten any properties or buildings.