The intense heat in the Chilliwack area over the weekend smashed some longstanding temperature records. It was almost 14 degrees above normal on Sunday, May 3, when the mercury hit a record-breaking maximum of 30.8 degrees Celsius, said Chilliwack’s volunteer weather observer, Roger Pannett, for Environment Climate Change Canada. The previous record for that particular day was set in 1898 with a high of 28.9 C. There has been no rain for going o…