The record for the highest temperature in Canada has been broken again. The village of Lytton in British Columbia reached a new national high of 49.6C on Tuesday, a day after it had set a record of 47.9C.
This record even beats the highest temperature for Europe or South America and was a new high for anywhere in world above 45 degrees north. Most national records are broken only by fractions of a degree but this one smashed the historical record in Canada by 4.6C.
The intense heatwave in western Canada, as well as the US northwest, has been devastating. The BBC reported that dozens of people have died in Canada from the heat, and police in Vancouver have responded to more than 130
