Sunglasses and suntan lotion were kept at the ready this September across the Okanagan.

Last month was the warmest September on record in both Kelowna and Penticton, according to Environment Canada.

The average high temperature in Kelowna was 27.1 C, almost three degrees above the previous September record of 24.5 C, set in both 2020 and 2022.

“That’s quite the dramatic jump into first place,” Environment Canada meteorologist Ken Dosanjh said this week in an interview with Okanagan Newspaper Group.

And the mean temperature - the average of daytime highs and night-time lows - was also a record in Kelowna, at 19.5 C, or four degrees warmer than usual.

In Penticton, the mean temperature last month was 19.2 C, or almost two degrees warmer than the old mean record of 17.9 C, set in 1998.

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