Canada records its first 30-degree day of 2025, who’s next?
The feat arrived about a month and a half after Canada saw its first 20-degree day of the year
The long wait is finally over.
Seven weeks after the country notched its first 20°C reading of the year, Canada finally recorded its first 30-degree temperature of 2025 on Friday.
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A national milestone achieved
The week ended on a toasty note across the British Columbia interior as temperatures rose into the upper 20s throughout the region.
Kamloops, B.C., takes the prize this year for the first community to reach the 30-degree mark. The observation station there saw a high temperature of 30.1°C on Friday afternoon.
That’s a far cry from the -24.7°C morning low recorded at Nunavut’s Taloyoak Airport, which was the country’s cold spot on Friday.
The B.C. Interior is right about where you would expect to see an early-season 30°C on the board. Lytton and Squamish were the first communities to reach the 30°C club last year, reaching the summer-like milestone on May 9, 2024.
While we usually expect to see the achievement in places like B.C., the southern Prairies, or southwestern Ontario, the heat can sometimes take us by surprise.
Back in 2022, the country’s first 30-degree reading popped up in an unlikely location—Moosonee, a community in far northern Ontario.
Who’s next on 30-degree watch?
Plenty of communities are in line for a potential second-place finish in the race for 30 degrees in the days ahead.
A ridge over the western Prairies this weekend will push portions of Alberta and Saskatchewan into the upper 20s.
Medicine Hat and Lethbridge could hit 30°C on Saturday, while Regina could reach the milestone on Sunday.