For the seventh day in a row, multiple communities across B.C. set or tied high temperature records on Thursday. Nine places in the province – most of them in the Interior – just saw their hottest Aug. 28 on record, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada. Thursday’s warmest record-breaking temperature was seen in Cache Creek, where the mercury hit 38.2 C, surpassing the previous record of 36.8 C, which was set eight years ago in 2017. Fort St. John broke a much older record with its high of 31.1 C. The previous mark of 30.6 C dates back 90 years to 1935. The full list of records broken Thursday, according to ECCC, follows. The temperature records ECCC reports are “derived from a selection of historical stations in each geographic area that were active during the period of record,” according to the weather service. Several areas of the province remained under heat warnings on Friday, including the Fraser Canyon, South Thompson and North Coast regions. The late August heat wave began breaking daily high temperature records in B.C. last Friday, Aug. 22.
