Two areas in the Chilcotin were recognized for setting temperature records.
Yesterday (Wednesday) Puntzi Mountain was BC’s cold spot at minus 22.2 while 79 kilometres South Tatlayoko Lake was the Province’s hot spot with plus 10.4 degrees Celsius.
Environment Canada Meteorologist Lisa Erven said weather stations across BC are very much influenced by their surroundings, we have such complicated terrain that you can get some pretty wild differences in temperature and precipitation over very short distances.
“Puntzi Mountain is pretty susceptible to much colder overnight temperatures, that compared to Tatlayoko Lake that is nestled up against the Coast Range is more influenced by that surrounding terrain and the winds that come down off the mountains so it’s very possible to see these stark temperature differences. You get the same thing on the East side of the Rockies with Chinook winds where all of a sudden the City of Calgary goes from minus ten to plus ten, it’s the same kind of idea in these two Chilcotin areas.”
Erven added that the weather station at Puntzi Mountain typically shows up as being one of the coldest spots in the Central Interior
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