Heat wave continues to break records in B.C. as 324 wildfires burn. The hottest spot was Lytton, where a new record of 42.2 C broke a record of 42.1 C set in 2006. Close on its heels was Kamloops, where a new record of 41.1 C toppled a previous record of 38.9 C set in 1908.

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1. Sweltering heat and smoke are stifling B.C. where 324 wildfires are burning as of Monday morning.

   Lightning strikes ignited tinder dry landscapes in near cities and towns around the province. In turn, there have been evacuation orders near in the Central and East Kootenay as well as in Thompson-Nicola, Cariboo and Bulkley — Nechako in the northwest.

   The BC Wildfire Service said in its Sunday update that the heat and wind was doing crews no favours, and those conditions were expected to persist.

2. That’s horrible. I live in the US, and there are forest fires all around me—in California, New Mexico, and even here in Arizona where I live. Every year, it only seems to get hotter, and the summers last longer. We’re in monsoon season, yet it feels like a joke here in northern Arizona. All we get is humidity and wind, and the rain hasn’t even made it here.

3. Lytton was the village that burned down 3 years ago. Finding reports that it was 49.6C in 2021, but I’m unsure of how they measured that. It could be that it was “surface temperature”. Journalists like exaggerated numbers after all.