The stormy weather that has caused flooding in B.C. this week has also brought record-breaking warm air with it.
A summary released by Environment and Climate Change Canada Thursday lists 32 different high temperature records that were either broken or tied on Wednesday, though some of the records appear to be counted multiple times.
B.C.’s capital and its largest city were among the communities that saw their warmest Remembrance Day on record Wednesday.
The mercury rose to 16.7 C in Victoria, breaking the previous record high for Nov. 11 of 15 C, which was set in 1977.
In Vancouver, Wednesday’s high was 17 C, eclipsing the previous mark of 16.3 C, set 30 years ago in 1996.
The warmest record-breaking temperature seen Wednesday was in Cache Creek, where the high was 21.5 C, more than four degrees warmer than the previous mark of 17 C set in 1981.
Abbotsford (20.1 C) and Lillooet (20.3 C) were the only other communities where Wednesday’s high surpassed 20 C and broke the local record for Nov. 11.
Lillooet also holds the distinction of having the oldest record eclipsed on Wednesday. The community’s previous record high for Nov. 11 was 19.4 C, a mark set 109 years ago in 1917.
One other century-old record was broken Wednesday, this one in Salmon Arm, where the high of 15.8 C surpassed the 105-year-old previous mark of 14.4 C, set in 1921.
The full list of temperature records broken or tied on Wednesday, as reported by ECCC, follows.
- Abbotsford area: New record of 20.1 C, old record of 17.1 C set in 1981
- Cache Creek area: New record of 21.5 C, old record of 17 C set in 1981
- Chetwynd area: New record of 11.6 C, old record of 11.5 C set in 2016
- Clearwater area: New record of 17.9 C, old record of 15 C set in 1981
- Clinton area: New record of 14.7 C, old record of 12.5 C set in 1981
- Dawson Creek area: New record of 14.6 C, old record of 13.9 C set in 1936
- Dease Lake area: New record of 8.7 C, old record of 8.3 C set in 1952
- Esquimalt area: New record of 16.7 C, old record of 15 C set in 1977
- Gibsons area: New record of 16.1 C, old record of 15.5 C set in 2016
- Golden area: New record of 11.5 C, old record of 9.9 C set in 1987
- Gonzales Point area: New record of 16.7 C, old record of 15 C set in 1977
- Lillooet area: New record of 20.3 C, old record of 19.4 C set in 1917
- Nanaimo area: New record of 18.1 C, old record of 16.2 C set in 1991
- Pemberton area: New record of 11.9 C, old record of 11.1 C set in 1933
- Pitt Meadows area: New record of 19 C, old record of 16.5 C set in 1981
- Powell River area: New record of 16.2 C, old record of 15.6 C set in 1932
- Prince George area: New record of 17.7 C, old record of 17.4 C set in 1981
- Puntzi Mountain area: New record of 16 C, old record of 14.5 C set in 1977
- Quesnel area: New record of 18.8 C, old record of 16.7 C set in 1981
- Richmond area: New record of 17.1 C, old record of 16.3 C set in 1996
- Salmon Arm area: New record of 15.8 C, old record of 14.4 C set in 1921
- Sechelt area: New record of 16.1 C, old record of 15.5 C set in 2016
- Summerland area: New record of 15.8 C, old record of 15.5 C set in 1990
- Vancouver area: New record of 17 C, old record of 16.3 C set in 1996
- Vernon area: Tied record of 15 C set in 1990
- Victoria (Hartland) area: New record of 16.7 C, old record of 15 C set in 1977
- University of Victoria area: New record of 16.7 C, old record of 15 C set in 1977
- Victoria Harbour area: New record of 16.7 C, old record of 15 C set in 1977
- West Vancouver area: New record of 17.1 C, old record of 17 C set in 2016
- Whistler area: New record of 11.2 C, old record of 10.3 C set in 1981
- White Rock area: New record of 18.7 C, old record of 16.5 C set in 1981
- Williams Lake area: New record of 15.5 C, old record of 13.2 C set in 1981
The records ECCC reports are “derived from a selection of historical stations in each geographic area that were active during the period of record,” according to the summary.
