Environment Canada has issued several wind and rainfall warnings as a "potent" fall storm bears down along B-C's coast.
The weather office says strong winds with gusts up to 110 kilometres per hour are expected over parts of northern Vancouver Island, the central coast and Haida Gwaii.
Heavy rain is meanwhile in the forecast for Howe Sound and parts of Vancouver Island with downpours expected to ease sometime Wednesday.
Environment Canada says the storm could cause localized power outages.
A dozen communities in British Columbia surpassed their daily heat record Saturday, with the Quesnel area beating a record set in 1919. Records from Environment Canada show temperatures hit 23 C on Saturday, exceeding the old record set for that day of 22.2 C.
Some Canadians said they were stuck in Israel amid deadly fighting Sunday, as airlines cancelled flights out of the country and reaching the Canadian Embassy on a holiday weekend proved difficult. Global Affairs Canada, meanwhile, said in a statement Sunday afternoon that it was aware of reports of one Canadian who has died amid the fighting and two others who are missing.
Three people have been killed in a small plane crash in Chilliwack, B.C. RCMP say in a statement they received a report that a plane had gone down at about 2 p.m. on Friday, not far from the airport in Chilliwack, about 100 kilometres east of Vancouver.
A Metro Vancouver RCMP officer has been charged under the Motor Vehicle Act after an off-duty crash in which a motorcyclist was seriously hurt. The BC Prosecution Service says Const. Brendan Prasad faces a single charge of driving without due care and attention.
Vancouver should nudge 20 C over the weekend, but Environment Canada says the system bringing the warm fall weather will break down by early next week, bringing clouds, showers and cooler conditions to most of B.C.
Mounties in B.C.'s southern Interior say a fiery head-on crash between two tractor trailers has claimed the life of one of the drivers. The crash on Thursday shut the Trans-Canada Highway down for much of the day.