As The Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang noted, that is one degree higher than the record in Las Vegas, the desert city more than a thousand miles south of Lytton.
And with the heat wave ongoing, it may not be long before the record once again climbs.
The previous Canadian records for hottest temperature, both 113 degrees, were set in Yellow Grass and Midale in Saskatchewan on July 5, 1937.
“It’s warmer in parts of western Canada than in Dubai. I mean, it’s just not something that seems Canadian,” Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips told CTV News on Saturday.
In the metropolitan hub of Vancouver, parks, beaches and pools have been flooded with residents eager to cool off as the temperature hit 89 degrees at the local airport Sunday — a record in a coastal city that usually has mild weather.
Canada’s record comes amid a severe heat wave in the Pacific Northwest, with records of 112 degrees in Portland, Ore., and 103 degrees in Seattle.
The heat wave is expected to continue for several more days. CTV News reported that predictions for Tuesday suggest Lytton’s high temperatures would last until at least Tuesday.
The high temperatures in the region have been blamed on a “heat dome,” a sprawling area of high pressure, now sitting over western Canada and the Pacific Northwest. Experts say climate change can make extreme weather events like this more common.
Environment Canada has issued heat warnings for a variety of people, including young children, pregnant women, the elderly and those with chronic illnesses.
BC Hydro, the main electric utility company in British Columbia, warned Monday that electricity demand was also setting records. “Extreme heat leads to record-breaking electricity demand for a second day in a row,” the company said on Twitter.
“This heatwave is exactly the type of extreme weather scientists told us would happen as a result of climate change,” Sonia Furstenau, leader of the Green Party of British Columbia, tweeted on Monday.
British Columbia is “now facing a reality of extreme weather events or forest fires every single summer,” Furstenau added.
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