B.C. saw multiple daily heat records broken on Monday and Tuesday, with Sechelt, Bella Bella, and Victoria seeing new highs.
Environment Canada says 14 areas in the province recorded new highs.
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Cities across the Lower Mainland, such as West Vancouver, Abbotsford, and White Rock, all set new records.
Abbotsford’s new record is now 33 C, up from 30.2 C set in 1992.
West Vancouver set a new record at 32.1 C, an increase of 2.6 C from 1989.
The temperature in White Rock went up all the way to 31 C. The old record was set at 28.3 in 1936.
Temperatures in Squamish reached a high of 34.1 C. The old record of 29.6 C was set in 1960.
People in Victoria felt the warmth of 30.4 C, an increase from 26.6 C in 2017, and the Bella Bella area recorded a new high of 27.6 C, up from 25.1 C in 1977.
The Village of Lytton was the hottest place in Canada with 34.2 C on Monday.
However, this was not a new record for the village, which is often considered to be the hottest place in Canada, reaching temperatures of about 40 C.
Meteorologist Michael Kuss in the 1130 NewsRadio Penfolds Roofing and Solar Weather Centre says temperatures are going to be falling toward the end of the week.
“Thursday, temperatures are only getting up into the low 20s C, and a lot more cloud cover comes in, and any rain that gets here on Thursday is very late in the day,” he said.