With temperatures soaring to more than 30 C in parts of the province this weekend, some B.C. residents may be wondering why they’re not hearing the term “heat dome” as they did in 2021.
That year, temperatures broke records across B.C., and the heat caused hundreds of deaths.
Armel Castellan, a warning preparedness meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada, says a heat dome is a generic term that denotes a heat wave and a high-pressure ridge.
Castellan says although temperature records will likely be broken this weekend, some key factors differ from the conditions that year.
“[This heat wave] does not have the potential
