The wildfire danger rating is currently at high for most of the province, and has risen to extreme in several sections of the Interior as well as the southern tip of Vancouver Island. government is introducing a provincewide campfire ban beginning on Wednesday.

In response to the extreme temperatures, the B.C. and Alberta, large parts of Saskatchewan, the Northwest Territories and a section of Yukon as the weather office forecasts temperatures reaching 40 C in some areas.Įnvironment Canada warns that the 'prolonged, dangerous and historic heat wave'' could ease as early as Tuesday on B.C.'s South Coast and in Yukon but won't relent until mid-week or early next week elsewhere. 6:40Įnvironment Canada is warning the extreme heat wave that has settled over much of Western Canada won't lift for days, although parts of British Columbia and Yukon could see some relief sooner. Watch: Heatwave smashes records across Western Canada:Ħ:40 There are worries about public safety as Western Canada’s dangerous heatwave intensifies, with no relief in sight. In all, 60 heat records fell on Sunday in B.C. and 59 were toppled on Monday. on Monday and some areas saw temperatures soar more than 10 degrees above previous records for the day, including Abbotsford (42.9 C) in the Fraser Valley, Dawson Creek (38.1 C) in the northeast, and Gibsons and Sechelt (40.1 C) on the Sunshine Coast.

New daily high temperatures were recorded in every region of B.C. Lytton, located about 260 kilometres northeast of Vancouver, has an average high temperature of about 24 C in June. Just one day earlier, the Fraser Canyon village saw temperatures of 46.6 C - breaking the all-time Canadian high of 45 C set in Saskatchewan in 1937. For context, that's hotter than the hottest temperature ever recorded in Las Vegas, at about 47.2 C, and almost eight degrees higher than Lytton's record high before this year. on Monday, Lytton had hit 47.9 C, according to Environment Canada.

village hit a new historic high of 47.9 C, blasting through the previous record by more than a full degree.Īs of 5:30 p.m. Just one day after Lytton recorded the highest temperature ever seen in Canada, the B.C.

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