{"id":650440,"date":"2026-05-06T00:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/650440\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T00:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:38:14","slug":"vancouver-breaks-temperature-record-last-set-in-1898-amid-hot-weather-across-b-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/650440\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver breaks temperature record last set in 1898 amid hot weather across B.C."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Warm weather across British Columbia has driven electricity demand to the highest level ever seen in May.<\/p>\n

B.C. Hydro said residents using fans and air conditioners pushed demand to about 7,600 megawatts.<\/p>\n

The record demand comes as temperature records continue to fall across\u00a0B.C. as unseasonably warm weather persists, including in Vancouver, where a mark set more than 100 years ago was broken.<\/p>\n

Environment Canada said Vancouver’s high temperature on Monday reached 23.9 C, easily breaking the record of 22.2 C set in 1898.<\/p>\n

\"AThe temperature in Vancouver on May 4 was more than a degree higher than the previous record. (Andrew Lee\/CBC)<\/p>\n

The weather forecast agency said 19 communities set new daily highs for May 4 on Monday, including Pemberton, which reported a high of 31.5 C.<\/p>\n

Meteorologists said the high temperatures are driven by a ridge of high pressure that will slowly cool down over the next few days before getting warm again this weekend.<\/p>\n

The national hot spot on Monday was Lytton,\u00a0B.C., at 31.9 C.<\/p>\n

New daily temperature records were also set on Monday in Bella Coola, Campbell River, Duncan, Kitimat, Lillooet, Nanaimo, Port Alberni and Squamish.<\/p>\n

Temperature records were also broken in the Metro Vancouver communities of Richmond, West Vancouver and Pitt Meadows. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-650440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}