{"id":821408,"date":"2026-07-23T19:01:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T19:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/821408\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T19:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T19:01:22","slug":"heat-records-smashed-across-b-c-but-relief-on-the-way-for-vancouver-forecast-daily-hive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/821408\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat records smashed across B.C., but relief on the way for Vancouver forecast | Daily Hive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vancouver forecast continues to be red hot in the month of July, with a dozen temperature records broken across the province this week, including a 98-year-old historical high.<\/p>\n<p>According to the daily weather summaries from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), 12 B.C. spots tied or set records for June 14, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as an air quality warning continues across Metro Vancouver due to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/vancouver\/bc-highways-closed-wildfires-smoke-heat-vancouver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ongoing wildfires in the Fraser Canyon and Manning Park region<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Vancouver forecast\" title=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"wp-image-2292155 size-large\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Metro-Vancouver-parking-1-1024x683.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2292155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">365 Focus Photography\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>West Vancouver hit a daily maximum temperature record on July 22 of 32.3\u00b0C.<\/p>\n<p>The previous record for the date was 32\u00b0C, a difference of 0.3\u00b0C, set in 2002. Records for the area have been kept since 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Pitt Meadows recorded a new historical high of 35.9\u00b0C, a full degree higher than the previous mark set in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Abbotsford also reached a new high for the date with 35.4\u00b0C, breaking a 20-year-old record by 0.9\u00b0C.<\/p>\n<p>Other notable records set yesterday include Lytton, which reached 41.2 \u00b0C, and Duncan, which broke a 98-year-old record with a new high temperature of 34.6\u00b0C.<\/p>\n<p>Several of the previous high-temperature marks were set decades ago.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Vancouver forecast\" title=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"wp-image-2186573 size-large\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bc-temperature-record-village-lytton-1024x683.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2186573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">StandbildCA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/environment-climate-change.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ECCC<\/a> meteorologist Janelle Gergely told Daily Hive that a trough is coming into the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a possibility of a few days of showers, which is pretty rare for the Metro Vancouver region,\u201d explained Gergely. \u201cUsually it\u2019s just one day during the summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were in an upper ridge that brought high temperatures to the region. Now the overall mass is changing, with cooler air moving in. There is a south-westerly flow, bringing in winds from the water, keeping things cool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is a 60 per cent chance of showers on Friday night and on Saturday, with a 30 per cent chance of showers lingering on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver temperatures will drop a few degrees, down to 21\u00b0C and 22\u00b0C from Saturday until next Wednesday in the forecast.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Vancouver forecast\" title=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"386\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2296547\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Vancouver-forecast-3-1024x386.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2296547\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ECCC<\/p>\n<p>However, things will begin clearing up for the last week of July as more sunshine returns to the forecast.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re looking for a cool activity to do around Vancouver, we\u2019ve got you covered this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>From the Vancouver Chinatown Festival to the Strathcona Blocks Party and more, we rounded up\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/vancouver\/vancouver-weekend-events-july-24-26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">20 things to do from July 24 to 26<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vancouver forecast continues to be red hot in the month of July, with a dozen temperature records&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-821408","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\/821408","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=821408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}