Twenty-six new record-high temperatures were set across B.C. on Sunday, according to Environment Canada.
Locally, four communities — Vancouver, West Vancouver, Pitt Meadows, and Abbotsford — were among those hitting new highs.
1130 NewsRadio meteorologist Michael Kuss says Monday will be cooler, but there are still expected to be some new record highs set.
“Cooler air will follow the cloud today, but even with the cloud cover across the Lower Mainland, it’s still going to be hot, as the area will continue to be affected by warm southerly breezes,” Kuss said.
“Highs will get close to records again today, but we won’t see as many around B.C. as we had yesterday.”
Conditions are expected to return to near seasonal temperatures Tuesday, he says.
“Northwesterly winds will help push high temperatures back closer to low to mid twenties.”
Those communities across the province that hit record highs Sunday were, according to Environment Canada (all values are in degrees Celsius):
ABBOTSFORD AREANew record of 31.5Old record of 31.0 set in 1999Records in this area have been kept since 1944
BELLA BELLA AREANew record of 24.8Old record of 22.0 set in 1999Records in this area have been kept since 1977
CACHE CREEK AREANew record of 35.6Old record of 34.4 set in 1974Records in this area have been kept since 1944
CAMPBELL RIVER AREANew record of 32.2Old record of 28.9 set in 1963Records in this area have been kept since 1958
COMOX AREANew record of 30.4Old record of 29.4 set in 1963Records in this area have been kept since 1914
DUNCAN AREANew record of 33.9Old record of 29.4 set in 1916Records in this area have been kept since 1913
ESTEVAN POINT AREANew record of 21.0Old record of 18.0 set in 1997Records in this area have been kept since 1908
GIBSONS AREANew record of 31.0Old record of 26.9 set in 2015Records in this area have been kept since 1949
HOPE AREANew record of 31.7Old record of 31.0 set in 1988Records in this area have been kept since 1936
LILLOOET AREANew record of 35.7Old record of 35.5 set in 2002Records in this area have been kept since 1917
LYTTON AREANew record of 36.8Old record of 35.4 set in 2002Records in this area have been kept since 1921
NANAIMO AREANew record of 33.2Old record of 30.0 set in 1963Records in this area have been kept since 1892
PEMBERTON AREANew record of 36.3Old record of 34.9 set in 2002Records in this area have been kept since 1908
PITT MEADOWS AREANew record of 33.3Old record of 30.5 set in 1988Records in this area have been kept since 1874
PORT ALBERNI AREANew record of 35.0Old record of 33.3 set in 1961Records in this area have been kept since 1900
PORT HARDY AREANew record of 22.0Old record of 21.7 set in 1944Records in this area have been kept since 1944
POWELL RIVER AREANew record of 30.0Old record of 26.9 set in 1988Records in this area have been kept since 1924
QUALICUM BEACH AREANew record of 30.2Old record of 27.2 set in 1963Records in this area have been kept since 1962
SECHELT AREANew record of 31.0Old record of 26.9 set in 2015Records in this area have been kept since 1956
SQUAMISH AREANew record of 31.9Old record of 29.5 set in 1999Records in this area have been kept since 1960
TATLAYOKO LAKE AREANew record of 30.3Old record of 29.0 set in 2002Records in this area have been kept since 1930
TOFINO AREANew record of 28.5Old record of 28.3 set in 1916Records in this area have been kept since 1896
VANCOUVER AREANew record of 26.8Old record of 25.6 set in 1932Records in this area have been kept since 1896
VICTORIA AREANew record of 30.2Old record of 28.6 set in 1999Records in this area have been kept since 1914
WEST VANCOUVER AREANew record of 29.2Old record of 27.6 set in 1999Records in this area have been kept since 1976
WHISTLER AREANew record of 31.6Old record of 31.4 set in 2002Records in this area have been kept since 1950