This weekend may have been warm, but Abbotsford didn’t break any records, according to Environment Canada meteorologist Matt MacDonald.
The mercury topped out at 31.6 C at Abbotsford International Airport on Sunday. That was short of Abbotsford’s all-time high for June 5 of 33.1 C set on 2003. Saturday’s high of 30.1 C fell short of the record of 31.6 C set in 2009. And Monday’s heat fell well short of the June 6 record of 34 C set in 2003. While Abbotsford didn’t break any records, 26 communities did around B.C.
After a record-hot month of April, May was another warm one, with the average temperature of 14.8 C nearly two degrees higher than average and the sixth warmest for the month on record. May was also the third abnormally warm month in a row.
MacDonald said temperatures should remain above average for the next couple months before cooling in the second half of the year.