Chilliwack – (Roger Pannett) – Roger Pannett who is a Volunteer Weather Observer for Environment Canada in Chilliwack, gave us the heated goods.
August 12th was the All time record high temperatures for date and month for Chilliwack.
A hot 37.9 C max temperature, with a dry 15 % relative humidity in smoky out flow winds. 13.4 C above normal!
The previous high max for date was 35.0 oC in 1990.
For Chilliwack, the previous all time August max temperatures were 36.2 C on August 8th , 2018 and 36.1 C on August 9th ,1960.
Wednesday night ,with a record high minimum at 20.5 C , ( previous high min 20.4 C in 2014) Early Thursday morning was also an all time record high mean August temperature at 29.2 C . ( 11.3 C above normal!)
For that stat, the previous all time record high mean was 28.0 C on August 19th, 2016.
More record high temperatures expected to be recorded Thursday night and Friday.
