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Warm temperatures continue to batter the province as numerous communities reached daily temperature records on Friday.
Photo Credit: NowMedia/Corvin Vaski
The oldest of the 13 records to be broken was in the Creston area after a new record of 37.5℃ surpassed the benchmark of 36.1℃ set in 1922.
Not far from Creston, the community of Castlegar surpassed a 73-year-old benchmark with a new high of 39.1℃.
On Friday, the Lytton area surpassed a previous record of 38.6℃ with a new high of 40.3℃.
Other records set across the province include:
- Blue River area (35.8℃) - old record of 33.9℃ set in 1974
- Clearwater area (36.8℃) - old record of 36.0℃ set in 2009
- Clinton area Tied record of (32.8℃) set in 2009
- Cranbrook area (37.2℃) - old record of 35.6℃ set in 1965
- Powell River area (29.9℃) - old record of 29.0℃ set in 2017
- Princeton area (37.4℃) - old record of 37.2℃ set in 1968
- Puntzi Mountain area (33.9℃ ) - old record of 32.2℃ set in 1974
- Sparwood area (34.6℃) - old record of 32.8℃ set in 1994
- Tatlayoko Lake area (33.5℃) - old record of 33.4℃ set in 2009
- Trail area (39.5℃) - old record of 38.5℃ set in 2015
- Vernon area (36.3℃) - old record of 35.9℃ set in 2009
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