All-time temperature records were smashed in Chilliwack Thursday (Aug. 12) due to the sweltering heat.
The high was 37.9C which set a record high temperature for both the date and month, said Roger Pannett, Chilliwack’s volunteer weather observer for Environment Canada.
The day got extremely hot for Chilliwack with only 15 per cent relative humidity blowing in the extremely smoky outflow winds.
“It was 13.4 degrees above normal,” Pannett said. The previous high for that date was 35C in 1990.
In terms of monthly records, the previous all-time August maximum temperatures were 36.2C on Aug. 8, 2018, and 36.1C on Aug. 9, 1960.
Overnight lows were notable, hitting 20.5C, also an all-time record high mean August temperature at 29.2C on Aug. 19, 2016.
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