While the southern half of British Columbia is dealing with some chilly fall weather, it appears to be quite pleasant up north.
The upper and lower portions of the provinces dealt with such different extremes on Tuesday that it resulted in daily temperature records being broken on both sides of the spectrum.
In Fort Nelson, a small community tucked away in the northeast corner of the province, it hit 19.4°C to mark the highest Oct. 14 temperature since records began being kept in the area 88 years ago.
Several hundred kilometres to the south, the story was much different, as 22 BC communities experienced record-setting cold for this time of year.
It certainly wasn’t localized to one area either, as the records ranged from Kitimat to Vancouver Island to Whistler to Sparwood to Golden.
A few of the broken records came in the centre of BC’s Southern Interior, including a frigid -9.8°C in Merritt that broke an 87-year-old record by over three degrees.
Blue River, Cache Creek, Clinton, Kamloops, Lillooet, Merritt, Nakusp, Salmon Arm, Sparwood and Vernon also saw record-breaking cold for Oct. 14.
Here’s a full list of daily temperature records that were broken on Tuesday:
Heat
- Fort Nelson (19.4°C) - old record of 19°C set in 2018
Cold
- Bella Bella (-0.4°C) - old record of 0.5°C set in 2018
- Blue River (-7.8°C) - old record of -6.1°C set in 1972
- Cache Creek (-3.5°C) - old record of -3.3°C set in 1970
- Campbell River (-2.7°C) - old record of -2.2°C set in 1969
- Castlegar (-4.2°C) - old record of -4.1°C set in 2002
- Clinton (-8.4°C) - old record of -5.6°C set in 1976
- Gibsons (1.2°C) - old record of 1.7°C set in 1966
- Golden (-7.5°C) - old record of -7.2°C set in 1931
- Kamloops (-4.7) - old record of -3.3°C set in 1952
- Kitimat (-1.3°C) - old record of -1°C set in 2016
- Lillooet (-2.8°C) - old record of -1.7°C set in 1931
- Merritt (-9.8°C) - old record of -6.7°C set in 1938
- Nakusp (-4°C) - old record of -2.5°C set in 1992
- Port Alberni (-2.6°C) - old record of -2.2°C set in 1952
- Port Hardy (-1.2°C) - old record of 0°C set in 1972
- Powell River (-0.1°C) - old record of 0.5°C set in 2018
- Qualicum Beach (-1°C) - old record of -0.5°C set in 1992
- Salmon Arm (-4.5°C) - old record of -4°C set in 1992
- Sechelt (1.2°C) - old record of 2.7°C set in 2008
- Sparwood (-6.9°C) - old record of -6.7°C set in 1973
- Vernon (-3°C) - old record of -2.5°C set in 1992
- Whistler (-2.9°C) - old record of -2.7°C set in 1997
