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Brr! Vancouver saw the coldest first of June in over 40 years last night

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If you ventured out for a walk extremely late last night or in the wee hours of the morning, you might have noticed a chill in the air.  

Not only did temperatures dip below the 10°C mark, but they also represented the coldest temperature for the first day of June in over a whopping 40 years.

Bobby Sekhon, Meteorologist, Environment Canada, tells Vancouver Is Awesome in a phone call that the last time the city saw temperatures this cold was in 1976. In that year, temperatures at Vancouver International Airport dropped down to a chilly 3.9°C.

Sekhon adds that there are some similarities between last night's low and the one recorded in 1976. In both instances, he says that a cold air mass behind a cold front pushed down from Alaska. However, he says that the core of the cold front dropped much lower in 1976, which resulted in the particularly frigid low. With that said, he says that last night's low was still markedly chilly for this time of year. 

Rolf Campbell, a weather historian on Twitter, shared the coldest June temperatures in Vancouver history and highlights that last night was the city's coldest June temperature in almost 10 years.

The last time it was this cold in June was on June 3, 2010.

As far as the rest of the month is concerned, Sekhon notes that June is one of those "mix bag" months that offers a multitude of weather events such as hail, thunderstorms, and heavy rain in addition to sunny, warm weather. As such, he remarks that it is still a bit too early to start planning for summer-like weather, as that typically begins toward the end of the month and the start of July.