Environment Canada says unseasonably hot weather in British Columbia’s Okanagan, Thompson and Boundary regions will push temperatures into the mid-30s this weekend.

The forecaster issued heat warnings Friday covering portions of the province’s Interior, saying the hot weather was expected to persist through Sunday.

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    311 months ago

    50 C would take a lot of roasting to get to; we’re pretty far north and there’s a lot of vegetation. It might be a couple decades. With the heat domes hitting Texas, they’re still just peeking at 45 C in non-desert areas, but low 40s would be devastating up here, and we could see that in the next 10 years.

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        11 months ago

        Well fuck me

        EDIT: You’re actually underselling it. It hit 49.6 C

        So, it pretty much already has hit 50 in BC. It’ll probably break 50 next time a heat dome hits.

        Lytton really shouldn’t count when talking about BC as a whole though. I still stand by it being a couple decades before we see 50 C across large regions.