Are you still finding it hard to sleep at night?
While temperatures have cooled from the scorching daily highs seen earlier this week, the Metro Vancouver region is expected to see some sweltering humidity this weekend.
Earlier this week, Environment Canada meteorologist Terri Lang told Vancouver Is Awesome in an interview that temperatures need to drop overnight to offer a reprieve from the relentless heat during the day.
"The heat is easing. I don't want to say it's cooling off," she said. "It's just kind of becoming less hot."
On Friday at noon, the federal weather forecaster ended the heat warning for Metro Vancouver. However, the forecast calls for a high of 24°C on the water and 27°C inland. That said, these temperatures will feel more like 29°C and 31°C with humidity.
While temperatures aren't expected to increase Saturday, they will feel warmer with humidity — 30°C on the coast and 33°C inland.
Overnight lows are expected to be higher than seasonal averages, too. Lang noted that the heat warning could be issued again as the temperatures climb and overnight lows stay high.
Metro Vancouver Weather Forecast
Photo via Environment CanadaB.C. records nearly 500 deaths and counting during heat wave
The devastating heat wave that paralyzed the Pacific Northwest has been linked to 486 sudden and unexpected deaths over a five-day period.
That’s 321 more sudden deaths — a 195 per cent increase — more than would occur over a normal five-day period.
Like its counterparts in fire, ambulance and law enforcement, coroners have been overwhelmed by the uptick in sudden deaths, particularly in the Lower Mainland. By Wednesday, the service had mobilized all its full and part-time coroner staff and sent them to the field to clear a backlog in sudden deaths.
With files from Stefan Labbé.
