The first full week of July in Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»is looking to be one with plenty of sunshine.
The seven-day forecast for Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»for the week starting Monday, July 5 features a string of mostly sunny days, a bit of cloud mid-week, and a weekend of full-on sun.
The week kicks off with a mix of sun and cloud Monday morning, which will clear out and lead to a sunny day with a high of 25 C.
The clouds move back in overnight, and the nighttime low will go down to 16 C - about where it will be every night of the week.
We can expect to see much the same conditions in Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»Tuesday, with more clouds and a small dip in temperature Wednesday, which so far looks to be the only cloudy day of the week on tap. Still, Wednesday's forecast high of 22 C under cloudy skies is still almost a full degree warmer than the historical average for this week in Vancouver, which is around 21 C daily.
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday are forecast to be sunny with a high of 24 C daily.
Weather forecast for Vancouver, B.C. for the week starting July 5, 2021. By Environment CanadaPrevious daily high-temperature records set in Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»for early July are in the 27 to 28 C range; we're looking to stay a couple of degrees down from those top temps this time around.
Be prepared for wildfire smoke
One thing we will need to be concerned about: poor air quality due to wildfire smoke.
The British Columbia Centre for Disease Control is warning British Columbians to prepare for what could be a wildfire smoke-filled summer.
While no alerts concerning smokey skies have been made yet for Metro Vancouver, the public health agency says it’s time to prepare all the same. The warning comes on the heels of the near-complete destruction of Lytton, a town in B.C.’s interior that was recently decimated by a still raging wildfire.
Sarah Henderson, scientific director of Environmental Health Services at the BCCDC says smoke has resulted from catastrophic wildfires that have occurred in western North America every year from 2016 to 2020.
“There is no reason to believe 2021 will be any different,” Henderson said. “Let’s start getting ready for the smoke now rather than waiting until it arrives.”
With files from Cameron Thomson
