{"id":9460,"date":"2015-06-26T05:49:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9460"},"modified":"2015-06-26T05:49:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T10:49:00","slug":"why-b-c-may-be-in-for-a-long-hot-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9460","title":{"rendered":"Why B.C. may be in for a long, hot summer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Why B.C. may be in for a long, hot summer<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

A dry spring, a warmer than usual Pacific Ocean, and an El Ni\u00f1o means the hot weather could be here to stay<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whenever temperatures approach 30 C\u00a0in Metro Vancouver, it’s a talker.<\/p>\n

While the thermostat does get close once or twice each\u00a0summer, this particular heat wave has a lot of added factors. First of all,\u00a0it’s early, as\u00a0seasonal highs for Vancouver right now are just 20 C.<\/p>\n

And the forecast temperatures will likely end up 10 degrees above that this weekend \u2014\u00a0numbers more reminiscent of July or August.<\/p>\n

This heat wave will also be intense. Temperatures will steadily climb right across southern B.C. over the next few days,\u00a0peaking on Sunday at 30 degrees for the South Coast\u00a0and approaching the 40s in the Interior.<\/p>\n

Daily temperature records will fall, but so too will many all-time hottest June\u00a0day records. It looks like we will, at\u00a0least, get close for places like Vancouver (30.6 C), Kelowna (38 C) and Kamloops (39.1 C).<\/p>\n

Finally, this heat is just the latest ‘extreme’ in what has been an incredibly warm and dry year overall. Most of B.C. is coming out of a winter of record low snow packs.<\/p>\n

Long range forecast calls for hot summer<\/h2>\n

This past May was the driest on record for most of the province. So far, just a fraction of expected June rain has fallen. And in general, temperatures have been above seasonal for weeks on end.<\/p>\n

This provides\u00a0that much more of an impact for\u00a0the hot weather forecast\u00a0when it comes to fire danger and drought concerns. After an explosive start to the fire season, and reservoirs dropping at an alarming speed,\u00a0a dry forecast ramps up the danger\u00a0and a hot one means evaporation of any moisture happens at a faster rate.<\/p>\n

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Why B.C. may be in for a long, hot summer A dry spring, a warmer than usual Pacific Ocean, and an El Ni\u00f1o means the hot weather could be here to stay Whenever temperatures approach 30 C\u00a0in Metro Vancouver, it’s a talker. While the thermostat does get close once or twice each\u00a0summer, this particular heat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[65,94,103,3544,3000,141,252,6754,288,369,4773,788,1340,1219],"class_list":["post-9460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-bc","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-cbc","tag-cbc-news","tag-climate-change","tag-el-nino","tag-extreme-temperature","tag-extreme-weather","tag-global-warming","tag-pacific-ocean","tag-temperature","tag-vancouver","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9461,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9460\/revisions\/9461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}