Temperatures plummet to record daily lows in southern B.C.
Bella Bella, Trail sink to around 4 C; cool air mass responsible for weekend chill, Enivronment Canada says
Environment Canada says an unseasonable cool air mass over southern B.C. has broken minimum temperature records, including one dating back about 70 years.
The forecaster says temperatures fell to just 4 C in the Trail area of the Kootenays on Sunday, breaking the record of 4.4 C set in 1954.
In the area round Bella Bella on the Central Coast, the minimum of 3.9 C broke a record set 10 years ago.
Records for low daily maximum temperatures were also set, with the Kelowna area reaching just 13.3 C, breaking the record of 15 C set in 1906.
Penticton and Princeton also reset records established in 1939, while other low daily maximum records were set in Summerland, Sparwood, Nakusp, Merritt and Kamloops.
Lytton was also a record breaker, getting to just 15.2 C — a far cry from the all-time Canadian heat record it set close to this time three years ago. That all-time high of 49.6 C on June 29, 2021, was recorded just a day before a wildfire destroyed much of the village and killed two people.