Overview

• Environment Canada reports that more than a dozen daily heat records fell Sunday in 15 communities across southern British Columbia.
• Lytton topped the province with 39.3°C, breaking the previous record set two years ago.
• Communities from Nanaimo and Pitt Meadows to Kamloops and Cache Creek recorded temperatures well above long-standing records.
• Temperatures are expected to cool in the Lower Mainland on Tuesday even as Howe Sound and inland Vancouver Island remain hot.
• Health authorities have warned that unseasonably warm conditions pose risks of heat illness and advise residents to stay hydrated and seek shade.