Penticton breaks 56-year-old temperature record on Monday

Monday was the hottest June 9 for Penticton since records started being kept back in 1899.

The mercury hit 34.5°C in the South Okanagan city to begin the week, which beat the previous daily temperature record of 33.9°C set back in 1969.

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Kelowna and Vernon also broke daily marks set in 1969 on Monday.

Both were more than a degree hotter than the previous record, with Kelowna reaching 33.9°C to knock off the old 32.8°C mark while Vernon’s high of 33.4°C was eclipsed the old number of 33.2°C.

A new benchmark was set in Summerland as well, but it wiped a much older record off the books.

There, the previous June 9 high of 34.4°C was set over a century ago in 1918 and it was comfortably eclipsed by Monday’s reading of 35.3°C.

None of these places got as hot as Osoyoos though, as the border town nestled along the Canada-US border got all the way up to 37.5°C.

Not only did that beat the previous daily record of 35°C, set back in 1969, it earned Osoyoos the title of Canada’s hot spot on Monday.

Here’s a full list of the 12 temperature records broken in British Columbia yesterday:

• Castlegar (36.4°C) - old record of 34.4°C set in 1918
• Cranbrook (34.4°C) - old record of 32.8°C set in 1918
• Creston (34.8°C) - old record of 33.3°C set in 1918
• Kelowna (33.9°C) - old record of 32.8°C set in 1969
• Nelson (35.3°C) - old record of 33.2°C set in 2015
• Osoyoos (37.5°C) - old record of 35°C set in 1969
• Penticton (34.5°C) - old record of 33.9°C set in 1969
• Princeton (34°C) - old record of 33.9°C set in 1903
• Sparwood (31.4°C) - old record of 29.3°C set in 2015
• Summerland (35.3°C) - old record of 34.4°C set in 1918
• Trail (36.6°C) - old record of 34.3°C set in 2015
• Vernon (33.4°C) - old record of 32.2°C set in 1969