Ashcroft made it into the record books on Wednesday, Sept. 3, when it recorded an official temperature of 40.8 C (105.4 F).

It wasn’t just the hottest spot in the country on that date: the temperature of 40.8 C was the hottest temperature ever recorded anywhere in Canada in the month of September. The previous hottest September temperature ever recorded in the country was 40 C, a three-way tie between Morden, Manitoba in 1906, Lost River, Saskatchewan in 1940, and Lytton, which hit 40 C on Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025.

Lytton was still hot on Sept. 3, reaching 39.8 C. It was one of 16 B.C. communities that set new temperature records on that date, including Clinton (34.3 C), Kamloops (36.9 C), and Lillooet and Merritt (both 38.7 C). The previous record highs for that date took place in the las

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