B.C. weather: Record-setting heat as thermometer hits sweltering 40 C

It was a scorching Monday crossed British Columbia arsenic nan sun and basking temperatures seared nan province.

No less than 25 communities group daily power records for July 8, pinch different 2 tying their erstwhile highs.

Leading nan record-setting time was Lytton, wherever nan mercury reached 42.4 C, obliterating nan town’s aged people of 39.4 C, which was group successful 1952.

It was besides nan nation’s basking spot connected Monday.

Two different communities besides reached nan 40-degree people — Lillooet, astatine 40.9 C, and Cache Creek, astatine 40.7 C — pinch 2 much connected nan cusp — Osoyoos astatine 39.7 C and Pemberton astatine 39.1 C.

Blue River

• New record: 35.5 C
• Old record: 34.5 C, group successful 2015

Burns Lake

• New record: 32.6 C
• Old record: 31.8 C, group successful 2010

Cache Creek

• New record: 40.7 C
• Old record: 40.3 C, group successful 2015

Campbell River

• New record: 33.4 C
• Old record: 33.0 C, group successful 2010

Castlegar

• New record: 38.3 C
• Old record: 37.4 C, group successful 1985

Cranbrook

• Tied grounds of 35.5 C, group successful 2017

Chetwynd

• New record: 32.4 C
• Old record: 32.3 C, group successful 2010

Dawson Creek

• New record: 30.9 C
• Old record: 30.8 C, group successful 2015

Kamloops

• New record: 38.2 C
• Old record: 38.0 C, group successful 2015

Kelowna

• New record: 37.8 C
• Old record: 36.5 C, group successful 2015

Lillooet

• New record: 40.9 C
• Old record: 39.6 C, group successful 2015

Lytton

• New record: 42.4 C
• Old record: 39.4 C, group successful 1952

Mackenzie

• New record: 31.9 C
• Old record: 31.7 C, group successful 2015

Malahat

• New record: 32.3 C
• Old record: 30.4 C, group successful 2010

Merritt

• New record: 37.9 C
• Old record: 36.7 C, group successful 2015

Nelson

• New record: 36.4 C
• Old record: 35.7 C, group successful 2017

Osoyoos

• New record: 39.7 C
• Old record: 38.5 C, group successful 2015

Pemberton

• New record: 39.1 C
• Old record: 35.2 C, group successful 2014

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Princeton

• New record: 37.6 C
• Old record: 36.7 C, group successful 1968

Smithers

• New record: 33.0 C
• Old record: 31.9 C, group successful 2023

Summerland

• Tied grounds of 35.7 C, group successful 2015

Tatlayoko Lake

• New record: 35.0 C
• Old record: 31.8 C, group successful 2010

Trail

• New record: 38.5 C
• Old record: 36.3 C, group successful 2017

Terrace

• New record: 33.1 C
• Old record: 32.6 C, group successful 2010

Vernon

• New record: 37.5 C
• Old record: 36.2 C, group successful 2015

Whistler

• New record: 35.3 C
• Old record: 33.5 C, group successful 2010

Yoho National Park

• New record: 30.4 C
• Old record: 29.4 C, group successful 1964

More regular records are expected to tumble Tuesday and perchance Wednesday, arsenic nan awesome precocious ridge of precocious unit responsible for nan power remains parked complete B.C.

However, nan ridge is expected to commencement breaking down connected Thursday, though not by much. For nan Southern Interior, temperatures are expected to stay successful nan mid-30s until adjacent Thursday.

“As nan ridge of precocious unit weakens somewhat tomorrow, and for nan remainder of nan week, precocious temps will travel down somewhat each time successful nan Interior but will enactment up arsenic lukewarm there,” Global News main meteorologist Mark Madryga said.

“Same for nan South Coast but besides a small much low-level marine aerial will bring temps down a touch much – still lukewarm days.”

British Columbia wasn’t nan only state to acquisition record-setting temperatures: 14 regular records were group successful Alberta.

The municipality of Wainwright, which is southeast of Edmonton, was nan province’s basking spot astatine 32.7 C.