Vancouver breaks weather record with today's warm temperature

Vancouver’s heat streak continues.

Another weather record was broken today as the city saw the hottest March 19 in three years.

According to Environment Canada, today’s temperatures in Vancouver reached 15.5°C, breaking the record of 14.5°C on the same day in 2016.

Vancouver wasn’t the only city that experienced historic temperatures.

Yesterday, 32 warm weather records were broken across the province.

Environment Canada

The mid-March heatwave is expected to continue for the next two days. Showers are expected on Thursday and Friday but then it’s back to sunshine and blue skies.

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Editor’s note: A previous version of this story using Environment Canada historical data incorrectly reported that Vancouver broke a 72-year-old temperature record.