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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.