The Victoria Day long weekend is just a week away, and the weather forecast is shaping up in typical Vancouver fashion.
By that, we mean wet and cloudy.
According to Environment and Climate Change Canada’s (ECCC) seven-day forecast, we’re in for a dash more sun over the next 24-48 hours before things take a turn for the greyer.
On Tuesday, ECCC expects a mainly sunny day with increasing cloudiness near noon. In the late afternoon on Tuesday, there’s a 60 per cent chance of showers. It may be a foggy morning.
Tuesday could also be quite warm. While there’s a high of 20°C expected in Vancouver on Tuesday, the humidex (or feels like) for inland areas is a much warmer 27°C.
Later in the week, it gets a few degrees cooler. Beginning Thursday, overnight lows could return to the single digits, with ECCC calling for 9°C, 8°C, and 8°C on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, respectively.
ECCC doesn’t yet have its forecast for Monday, but other weather agencies predict much of the same as Saturday and Sunday.
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There’s still a chance that Vancouver residents could see a shift before the long weekend, as the seven-day forecast can change on a dime.
However, you might want to savour the cooler days, because if this past abnormally warm B.C. winter was any indication, thanks to climate change, we could be in for another extreme summer.
When we spoke to ECCC in April about the May forecast, it did warn that temperatures could spike quite high this month, and we did see some of that last week.
Vancouver even saw a 128-year-old heat record broken last week.
The Metro Vancouver Regional District also announced that it was prohibiting lawn watering this summer.
“While the system is well equipped to supply the region for where it’s needed most, if too much water is used during the summer for non-essential purposes, then it could affect water pressure. Reduced water pressure could affect first responders’ ability to use water for emergencies,” read a release from Metro Vancouver last month.
With files from Daniel Chai and Hanna Hett