After many days of rain, British Columbia is raising the temperature, leaving locals wondering when summer will arrive.
With forecast highs in the low to mid-30s on Wednesday, Environment Canada issued special weather advisories for almost all of the province.
Eastern Vancouver Island, the Lower Mainland, the Kootenays, the Cariboo, and northeastern British Columbia are all included in the advisories.
The Central and North Coasts, Haida Gwaii, and northwest British Columbia are the only regions without unique weather declarations.
Beginning this weekend, the interior of British Columbia will have its first run of warmer-than-average weather.
Hot weather in B.C
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Throughout British Columbia, a swath of special weather warnings Locals were warned by Environment Canada to prepare for "the first hot stretch of summer."
Communities in Interior and South Coast B.C. will start to see "warmer-than-average temperatures," according to the meteorological agency's alerts, as per CTV News.
Temperatures might reach the low to mid-30s in certain areas of the Interior, such as Kelowna, Penticton, and the Kootenays, according to Environment Canada's alert.
Daytime highs are anticipated to reach the 30s in Metro Vancouver as well.
The upper 20s are expected on Saturday, June 25.
Temperatures will increase into the low to mid 30 degrees Celsius range for the remainder of the weekend and the first part of next week, as per Quesnel Cariboo Observer.
According to Environment Canada, overnight lows will be in the mid-teens.
According to Environment Canada, high temperatures increase the risk of heat-related diseases as well as snowmelt and snowpack instability.
Run-off may result in higher stream volumes.
By the middle of the next week, temperatures are predicted to rebound to near-normal levels as a colder, unsettled air mass comes ashore.
B.C. was scorched by a heat wave a year ago, with highs in the 30s.
The province had a heat dome towards the end of June and the beginning of July, with temperatures rising to the mid-40s and even higher in some places.
The weather pattern for this week will be different from the one that baked. It is also anticipated to leave swiftly.
According to Mark Madryga, chief meteorologist for Global BC, a swift change to brighter, drier, and most crucially, hotter weather is on the way to much of British Columbia.
On Thursday near the B.C. coast, an upper-level high-pressure ridge will gradually develop in the Coast and will extend into British Columbia.
The ridge will cause the daytime temperature to gradually rise and will probably peak throughout the three days from Saturday to Monday.
As a prelude to the significant shift in the weather that is anticipated to take place in the next few days, Environment Canada has issued special weather bulletins for the bulk of the province.
According to Madryga, this period's continuous heat and large temperature increase will increase the likelihood of floods because of the high mountains' quick melting.
He continued by saying that this next period of hotter weather is very typical for this time of the year.
Madryga further noted that temperatures are predicted to surge into the 30s in numerous Southern Interior and South Coast locations away from the coast, while the Central Interior will have highs in the mid to upper 20s.
He claimed that the record late-June heat event of the previous year, when temperatures topped 40 degrees on some of the South Coast and soared into the upper 40s across the Southern Interior, was under a much stronger, longer-lived high-pressure ridge.
As a result, he said, all-time national temperature records were set.
