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Colder than usual temperatures are breaking records in British Columbia.
Photo: Radio-Canada / Michael Wilson
Published yesterday at 6:31 p.m. EDT
Environment Canada says an unseasonably cool air mass has broken minimum temperature records in southern British Columbia.
Minimum temperatures reached 4°C on Sunday in the Trail region of the Kootenays, breaking the record of 4.4°C set in 1954.
In Bella Bella, the minimum temperature of 3.9°C was lower than the 4°C 10 years ago.
Record low temperatures were also set during the day. In Kelowna, the temperature reached only 13.3°C, breaking the record of 15°C in 1906.
Penticton and Princeton also broke records dating back to 1939. Other records were noted in Summerland, Sparwood, Nakusp, Merritt and Kamloops.
Lytton also broke a record with a temperature of 15.2°C, far from the Canadian heat record of 49.6°C set on June 29, 2021, just one day before a wildfire killed two people and destroyed a large part of the village.
With information from The Canadian Press
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