A dozen B.C. communities surpass daily heat record over Thanksgiving weekend
Environment Canada says Quesnel, B.C., temperatures hit 23 C on Saturday, beating the 1919 record for that day
A dozen communities in British Columbia surpassed their daily heat record Saturday, with the Quesnel, B.C., area beating a record set in 1919.
Records from Environment Canada show temperatures hit 23 C on Saturday, exceeding the old record set for that day of 22.2 C.
They were recorded near Quesnel's airport south of Prince George.
In the Prince Rupert area, the high of 21.5 C replaces the old record of 18.3 set in 1943 and in Dawson Creek, the 25 C high beat the old record of 23.9 degrees set in 1952.
In Port Hardy on Vancouver Island, a new record of 23.1 C surpassed the old record daily high of 18.3 set in 1964.
Here are some temperature and precipitation stats for September 2023.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BCStorm?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BCStorm</a> <a href="https://t.co/zZxMsQ4xDV">pic.twitter.com/zZxMsQ4xDV</a>
—@ECCCWeatherBCDaily records were also set in Bella Bella, Burns Lake, Mackenzie, Pitt Meadows, Powell River, Prince George, Tatlayoko Lake and West Vancouver.
A European Union climate monitoring agency found that last month was the hottest September globally ever recorded, coming in at 1.75 C above the pre–industrial average.
2023 is on track to become the hottest year on record for the planet, according to Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Services (C3S).
According to extensive data collected from satellites, weather stations, and ships and aircraft from around the world, September's average air temperature was 0.93 C above the 1991–2020 average for the month, beating out the previous record set in 2020 by 0.5 C.
With files from Nicole Mortillaro.