VANCOUVER — Ongoing heat warnings cover most of British Columbia and Environment Canada says the sweltering conditions have toppled more than a dozen daily temperature records.
Fourteen records were set around the province on Tuesday, from Prince Rupert to Bella Bella, Ashcroft and across the Fraser Valley and south coast.
B.C. also claimed the top seven hottest locations in the country on Tuesday, including Lytton, which was the hot spot in Canada at 40.2 C. In addition to heat warnings of temperatures up to 41 C for much of the central and southern Interior, and conditions only slightly cooler elsewhere in B.C., the weather office is maintaining air quality advisories for eastern parts of Metro Vancouver, the lower Fraser Valley and the Fraser Canyon.
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