63-year-old temperature record in Nanaimo broken a week before summer

The Nanaimo area broke a 63-year-old temperature record one week before the official start of summer.
The mercury hit the 33.2 C mark on Sunday, June 14, according to Christy Climenhaga, Environment Canada scientist, surpassing the previous record of 30 C set on the same day in 1963.
“We had what was called an upper ridge, so a large wave that forms in that upper air flow in our atmosphere that allows warm weather to build into the area, and also keeps any of those storm systems, that rain