Heat wave continues to break records in B.C. as 324 wildfires burn

Sweltering power and fume are stifling B.C. wherever 324 wildfires are burning arsenic of Monday morning.

Lightning strikes ignited tinder barren landscapes successful adjacent cities and towns astir nan province. In turn, location person been removal orders adjacent successful nan Central and East Kootenay arsenic good arsenic successful Thompson-Nicola, Cariboo and Bulkley — Nechako successful nan northwest.

The BC Wildfire Service said successful its Sunday update that nan power and upwind was doing crews nary favours, and those  conditions were expected to persist.

Environment Canada reiterated that connection nan adjacent day, issuing much power warnings for B.C.’s Southern Interior, arsenic good arsenic a aerial value advisories for Fort Nelson, Peace River, South Thompson, 100 Mile, Kootenay Lake, East and West Kootenay, East and West Columbia, Kinbasket and nan Arrow-Slocan Lake.

It did, however, bespeak nan three-week tally of grounds precocious power was nearing an end.

“An extended play of precocious temperatures will proceed arsenic a ridge of precocious unit remains complete nan region,” nan nationalist upwind agency reported connected Monday.

“As nan ridge shifts eastward, a gradually cooling inclination is expected opening coming pinch daytime precocious temperatures lowering beneath informing criteria connected Tuesday.”

On Sunday, Environment Canada said much than a twelve power warnings were broken, 5 of which showed supra 40 C power and respective were much than a period old.

The hottest spot was Lytton, wherever a caller grounds of 42.2 C collapsed a grounds of 42.1 C group successful 2006. Close connected its heels was Kamloops, wherever a caller grounds of 41.1 C toppled a erstwhile grounds of 38.9 C group successful 1908.

Trail group a caller grounds of 41.4 C breaking a grounds of 38.5 C group successful 1994.

In nan Okanagan, nan hotspot was Vernon, wherever mercury reached 40.1 C, breaking a grounds of 40 C group successful 1908.  Nearby, Kelowna group a caller grounds of 39.7 C, breaking a grounds of 38.9  C group successful 1994. Summerland besides saw searing heat, mounting a grounds of 37.2 C, and breaking a grounds of 37.0 group successful 1994.

Clearwater was nan past spot pinch a 40-plus somesthesia recorded, pinch a caller grounds of 40.4 C. That collapsed a grounds of 38.9 C group successful 1938.

Saturday’s 16 precocious temperatures were preceded by 14 B.C. communities breaking aliases matching their regular high-temperature records, pinch Lytton reaching a precocious of 41.2 C, breaking a grounds of 40.6 C group successful 1946. Temperature records besides fell successful nan B.C. communities of Cranbrook, Merritt, Princeton, Trail and Vernon, pinch each 5 communities reaching astatine slightest 36 C.

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Environment Canada is informing group to look for early signs of power unwellness since these symptoms tin create into life-threatening emergencies.

Remaining Sunday records

Blue River
New grounds of 38.9 C
Old grounds of 35.2 C group successful 2006

Cache Creek
New grounds of 37.8 C
Old grounds of 37.0 group successful 1994

Cranbrook
New grounds of 37.4 C
Old grounds of 36.6  C group successful 1985

Dawson Creek  tied grounds of 33.3 C group successful 1938

Dease Lake
New grounds of 31.1 C
Old grounds of 28.8 C group successful 1990

Golden
New grounds of 37.7 C
Old grounds of 36.7 C group successful 1936

Lillooet
New grounds of 39.7 C
Old grounds of 39.4 C group successful 1935

Mackenzie
New grounds of 34.6 C
Old grounds of 32.7 C group successful 2006

Merritt tied grounds of 39 C group successful 2006

Nelson
New grounds of 39.8 C
Old grounds of 38.1 C group successful 1994

Prince George
New grounds of 34 C
Old grounds of 33.5 C group successful 2006

Princeton tied grounds of 38.3 C group successful 1938

Quesnel
Preliminary caller grounds of 38.1 C
Old grounds of 36.1 C group successful 1904

Smithers
Preliminary caller grounds of 32 C
Old grounds of 30.5 C group successful 2006

Sparwood
Preliminary caller grounds of 34.8 C
Old grounds of 34 C group successful 1979

Yoho Park
Preliminary caller grounds of 33.2 C
Old grounds of 32.2 C group successful 1936