After a week of mostly southerly winds, Environment Canada reported record Nov. 11 temperatures across parts of Southern B.C., including 17°C at Richmond and 20.1°C in Abbotsford.
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Environment Canada meteorologist Steve Boily said the region saw record-breaking warmth on Nov. 11 after a full week of mostly southerly winds over Southern B.C.
At the airport weather station in Richmond, temperatures peaked at 17°C, beating the previous Nov. 11 record of 16.3°C set in 1996 by 0.7°C.
In Metro Vancouver, Vancouver’s new high-temperature record was described as not drastically different from the previous benchmark, but other communities saw much larger jumps.
In Abbotsford, the prior record of 17.1°C set in 1981 was broken by about 3 degrees, reaching 20.1°C, which Boily said made it the third-warmest November day ever in Abbotsford.
Langley saw temperatures reach 19°C, and Pitt Meadows also hit 19°C; the source notes Pitt Meadows surpassed its 1981 record of 16.5°C.
Outside the immediate Metro Vancouver area, Cache Creek recorded summer-like warmth at 21.5°C, which the source says was 4.5°C higher than its 1981 record.
Along the Sea-to-Sky Highway, Whistler broke a Nov. 11 temperature record (also from 1981), rising from 10.3°C to 11.2°C, while Pemberton topped its 1933 record of 11.1°C with 11.9°C.
The source said the Sea-to-Sky area was also unusually wet, with Whistler setting a daily precipitation record of nearly 75 millimetres and Squamish recording its second-highest daily November precipitation total for any day in November at 122.4 mm.
Boily said the warmth extended into Northern B.C., with Prince George experiencing its second-warmest November day ever at 17.7°C, making Nov. 11 warmer there than in downtown Vancouver.
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