B.C. weather: 13 daily records set under ongoing ridge of high pressure

These are nan canine days of summer, and nan dogs are barking loudly successful B.C., wherever nan season-long inclination of record-breaking power continued Friday.

In all, 13 communities group caller highs for regular temperatures connected Aug. 2, pinch Lytton starring nan measurement astatine 40.3 C and eclipsing nan town’s erstwhile grounds of 38.6 C, group successful 2014.

Lytton was besides nan nation’s hotspot connected Friday.

The Kootenays were besides scorching hot, pinch Trail’s mercury rising to 39.5 C and Creston’s reaching 37.5 C.

Below are nan areas that either group aliases tied their regular maximum somesthesia grounds for Aug. 2.

Blue River

• New record: 35.8 C
• Old record: 33.9 C, group successful 1974

Castlegar

• New record: 39.1 C
• Old record: 38.9 C, group successful 1951

Clearwater

• New record: 36.8 C
• Old record: 36.0 C, group successful 2009

Clinton

• Tied record of 32.8 C, group successful 2009

Cranbrook

• New record: 37.2 C
• Old record: 35.6 C, group successful 1965

Creston

• New record: 37.5 C
• Old record: 36.1 C, group successful 1922

Lytton

• New record: 40.3 C
• Old record: 38.6 C, group successful 2014

Powell River

• New record: 29.9 C
• Old record: 29.0 C, group successful 2017

Princeton

• New record: 37.4 C
• Old record: 37.2 C, group successful 1968

Puntzi Mountain

• New record: 33.9 C
• Old record: 32.2 C, group successful 1974

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Sparwood

• New record: 34.6 C
• Old record: 32.8 C, group successful 1994

Tatlayoko Lake

• New record: 33.5 C
• Old record: 33.4 C, group successful 2009

Trail

• New record: 39.5 C
• Old record: 38.5 C, group successful 2015

Vernon

• New record: 36.3 C
• Old record: 35.9 C, group successful 2009

The likelihood of much upwind records being group successful nan short word is highly, courtesy of a ridge of precocious unit that’s been floating supra Southern B.C. since mid-week.

That upwind shape has resulted successful ongoing power warnings for galore regions, wherever temperatures are expected to scope nan mid-to-upper 30s.

Areas nether power warnings see eastbound Vancouver Island, parts of Howe Sound, Whistler, nan Fraser Canyon positive nan Thompson, Cariboo, Okanagan, Boundary and Kootenay regions.

“The above-average power will persist until nan extremity of nan weekend,” said Environment Canada, “when nan temperatures are expected to cool beneath informing criteria.”