April 2026 Forecasts and Discussions

[Canada Goose]

24.0°C Squamish
23.3°C Lytton
23.1°C Ashcroft
23.0°C Warfield
22.7°C Osoyoos
22.6°C Hope
22.5°C Cultus Lake
22.3°C Pemberton
22.0°C Merritt
21.5°C Kamloops, Port Alberni & Princeton
21.3°C Agassiz
21.0°C Pitt Meadows
20.8°C Abbotsford
20.6°C Vernon
20.4°C Lillooet
20.3°C Kelowna
20.0°C Castlegar & Creston

[tyweather]

Strong (dry) NW cold front will pass through the region Monday evening into Tuesday morning. Typical dry season pattern here, though a bit rarer to see in April; if this were summer, we'd be talking about lightning and significant fire potential in the interior accompanying the winds.

Despite the continued sunshine, Tuesday will be noticeably cooler with frost possible overnight into Wednesday.


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Special weather statement for wind gusts of 70 kmh issued for SW BC

[tyweather]

El Nino looks to be a beast.

[Hawk]

El Nino looks to be a beast.

We basically just had a relentless EN winter
Next winter can’t be much worse than this one

[PortKells]

El Nino looks to be a beast.

Damn.

[Typeing3]

El Nino looks to be a beast.

The El Nino being referred to here 140 years ago was in 1877-78 and the strongest on record (records stretch back to 1850) with the ONI (oceanic Nino index) value peaking at 2.9c.

Sources and further reading:

https://www.webberweather.com/ensemble- ... index.html

https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/46581

https://link.springer.com/article/10.10 ... 008-9470-5

https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... Literature

https://science.fas.columbia.edu/news/c ... disasters/

[AbbyJr]

Currently 20.6C here.

[HarrisonSasquatchWx]

Max temps this afternoon. Toasty in Squamish!

Abbotsford 20.8°C
Agassiz 21.3°C
Burns Bog 18.5°C
Hope 22.5°C
Langley 19.7°C
MBY 19.7˚C
Pitt Meadows 20.6°C
Squamish 24.0°C
Vancouver Harbour 16.3°C
Vancouver YVR 14.0°C
West Vancouver 17.6°C
White Rock 17.6°C

And a high of 21.8c @ the lake in Harrison Hot Springs.

[Canada Goose]

24.7°C Lytton, highest in BC this year.

24.3°C Osoyoos
23.9°C Lillooet
23.0°C Cultus Lake
22.8°C Princeton
22.3°C Kamloops
22.2°C Pemberton
22.0°C Warfield
21.8°C Penticton & Victoria University
21.6°C Summerland
...
20.2°C Esquimalt Harbour
19.5°C Victoria Harbour

[Rubus_Leucodermis]

Lower Mainland max temps today:

Abbotsford 20.1°C
Agassiz 20.5°C
Burns Bog 19.3°C
Hope 21.3°C
Langley 20.1°C
MBY 19.4˚C
Pitt Meadows 20.1°C
Squamish 18.8°C
Vancouver Harbour 17.7°C
Vancouver YVR 14.8°C
West Vancouver 17.2°C
White Rock 17.4°C

[Canada Goose]

Pitt Meadows 20.1°C

20.2°C Pitt Meadows CS
20.1°C Pitt Meadows Airport

[AbbyJr]

High of 21.3C here today.

[Typeing3]

High of 21c in east Coquitlam. :thumbup

Wind is starting to pick up here! Tomorrow will feel much colder after the passage of the cold front.

[PortKells]

We basically just had a relentless EN winter
Next winter can’t be much worse than this one

Of course it can. Less mountain snow, warmer, etc. windstorms too, didn’t really get any major ones. But this looks to be ugly and maybe just maybe enough to wake people up to reality if it gets bad enough .

[Hawk]

El Nino looks to be a beast.

Key word i noticed here is "potential"