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Heat records broken in Chilliwack with searing temperatures

High of 37.9C on Aug. 12 set record high temperature for both date and month
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Misting station at the Visitor Centre on Sunday, June 27, 2020, during an extreme heat wave, which is also open this week along with other Chilliwack cooling centres. (Jessica Peters/ Chilliwack Progress file)

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.

RELATED: Records shattered in late-June’s scorching heat

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Jennifer Feinberg

About the Author: Jennifer Feinberg

I have been a Chilliwack Progress reporter for 20+ years, covering the arts, city hall, as well as Indigenous, and climate change stories.
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