After the hottest day ever in Kamloops on Sunday, prepare for more potentially-record-breaking temperatures over the next couple of days.
The mercury hit 44 C in Kamloops Sunday evening, smashing the previous record high of 41.7 C which had been set in July of 1939 and again in July of 1941. Temperature records have been kept in the Tournament Capital since 1892.
And that record could be short lived; at time of positing, the temperature is expected to reach 44 C again today, and 45 C on Tuesday. Highs of 43 C, 38 C and 39 C are in the forecast for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, respectively.
Before Saturday, when the temperature reached 40.7 C, there had never been a 40-degree day in the month of June ever recorded in Kamloops.
Meanwhile, Lytton lived up to its moniker of “Canada’s Hot Spot” on the weekend, setting the all-time record for the warmest temperature ever recorded in Canada.
The village saw the mercury reach 46.6 C on Sunday, smashing the national heat record of 45.0. The previous record had been set in two different locations on the same day: Yellow Grass, Sask. and Midale, Sask, on July 5, 1937. Yesterday, Ashcroft also reached 45.0, which would’ve tied the old record.
Across B.C., there were 58 daily temperature records broken yesterday (June 27). Others in the Thompson-Nicola region apart from Kamloops, Lytton and Ashcroft include Blue River (37.3 C), Clearwater (42.3), Clinton (39.0) and Merritt (42.2).
A heat warning from Environment Canada remains in place for most of B.C., all of Alberta, central Saskatchewan, parts of Manitoba and Northwest Territories and part of southern Yukon.