Nineteen daily temperature high records were broken across B.C. on Monday, including three records over 100 years each.
Environment Canada says a strong ridge of high pressure continued to bring elevated temperatures across different regions of the province, breaking records for another day.
The daily maximum temperature records for Monday (May 4) include:
• Bella Bella with a high of 28.6 C, beating the previous record of 22.7 C set in 2013
• Bella Coola broke a 111-year-old record with 29.5 C. The old record of 27.8 C in 1915
• Campbell River hit 29.3 C, breaking the old record of 25.8 set in 2013
• Comox reached 27.6 C, beating the 2013 record of 23.5 C
• Duncan was 28.9 C, breaking the 69-year-old record from 1957 of 27.8 C
• Kitimat hit 27.2 C, breaking the 2024 record of 23.9 C
• Lillooet was the second-hottest in the province at 31.2 C, breaking the 1998 record of 30.1 C
• Nanaimo broke a 1980 record of 26.4 C, with 29.1 C on Monday
• Pemberton was the hottest spot in the province at 31.5 C, beating he 1957 record of 30.6 C
• Pitt Meadows hit 28.5 C, breaking the 27 C set in 1992
• Port Alberni reached 30.6 C, breaking the 111-year-old record of 29.4 C in 1915
• Port Hardy was 23.5 C, beating the 1980 record of 22.4 C
• Powell River broke the 1992 record of 25 C with 27.1 C on Monday
• Qualicum Beach had a record for a second day in a row, hitting 28.9 C and beating the 2013 record of 23.5 C
• Richmond broke a 128-year-old record Monday at 25.9 C, breaking the old record of 22.2 C set in 1898
• Sechelt was 28.3 C, breaking the record of 23.6 C set in 2017
• Squamish hit 30.9 C, beating the 2017 record of 26.4
• Vancouver also broke a 128-year-old record at 23.9 C, beating out the 1898 record of 22.2 C
• West Vancouver hit 25.8 C, breaking the previous record of 25.5 C from 1992