A B.C. village has done it again, achieving a scorching hot meteorological feat that makes it one of the hottest places Canada has ever seen this month.
Yesterday, on Sept. 2, Lytton, B.C., reached a temperature of 40°C. The last time Lytton experienced such high temperatures was on Sept.2, 2022, when it reached a temperature of 39.6°C.
While Lytton didn’t break the record yesterday, it tied three other Canadian locations for the hottest September temperature on record in Canada. That record isn’t just for Sept. 2; it’s for the entire month of September.
Daily Hive spoke with Matt Loney, Senior Program Meteorologist at Environment and Climate Change Canada, for more details on the scorching hot feat.
“In terms of all September temperatures ever recorded across the country, it tied three other places,” Loney said.
Loney told us that all the locations tied to Lytton for the national September hot weather record are in Manitoba, including Morton, Winkler, and Portage la Prairie.
Weather records in Lytton have been kept since 1921.
Another B.C. spot came close to the record. The Cache Creek Area reached a new record of 39.3°C yesterday. Records in the Cache Creek Area have been kept since 1944.
Last month, we reported that the small B.C. village, with a population of just hundreds of people, reached the hottest temperature Canada has seen all year. On Aug. 24, Lytton broke a weather record dating back to 1958, when it reached a temperature of 40.3°C.
Lytton did it again the following day. On Aug. 25, the village recorded a high of 41.3°C, marking the hottest day in Canada since the start of the year.
When it comes to extreme heat, Lytton has experienced a prolonged history of it in recent years. Lytton, located approximately a three-hour drive from Vancouver, has made headlines for unfortunate reasons. The first significant story involving the small B.C. village dates back to July 1, 2021, when 90 per cent of the town was destroyed just a day after it broke a Canadian temperature record.
Since then, the village has made several headlines for extreme heat.
Looking at the local forecast, Metro Vancouver isn’t in for a significant cooldown for the rest of the week. An air quality advisory has also made the air feel a little smoky in much of the region.
Thankfully, some rain is headed our way this weekend.
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