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Environment Canada reported that 23 records have been toppled as an unseasonably warm airmass continued on Monday.

Interior Health announced the latest closure on Friday afternoon, just after 3 p.m., and that it’s due to limited physician availability.

B.C. set dozens of temperature records on Saturday as a warm spell continues. Hope went one step further than setting its own record — at 23.6 C, it was the hottest place in Canada

Environment Canada said a ridge of high pressure brought warm temperatures to B.C. this weekend, and well above-normal conditions are forecast to continue this week.

A total of 17 communities across the province recorded their coldest-ever temperatures for Jan. 13, including 10 in the Interior region.

Notably, just across the Yukon border, Watson Lake tied its temperature record for Jan. 12 when the mercury dropped to -49.4 C.

As of Tuesday morning, gas was priced at $1.499 a litre in Kelowna, $1.599 in Penticton and $1.549 in Vernon.

“During this time, all other inpatient services will continue as normal at South Okanagan General Hospital,” said Interior Health.

Environment Canada listed the hottest spot in the province Monday as Lillooet, where the temperature reached 40.7 C, breaking a record of 39.1 C set in 2021.

According to police, Brendan Latimer, 29, was a wanted man and had been arrested multiple times during the last two years for similar offences.

Near Fauquier, two men drove down an embankment on Monday and hit a tree. The search took hours, with the rescue taking up most of the night.

Six temperature records were broken across B.C. Sunday, amid a warning for extreme heat.

The Earth just experienced its hottest week on record, on the heels of a record-setting month in June, and more heat waves and record-breaking days are expected before summer ends.

Hundreds of lightning strikes in many parts of British Columbia almost tripled the number of active wildfires in the province over the weekend.

Summer hasn't event started yet, an already a slew of daily temperature records have been broken. The B.C. hot spot Monday was Lytton at 36.4 C, up from the old mark of 36.2 C.

The weather alert, issued just before 11 a.m. on Saturday, includes the Okanagan plus parts of the Shuswap, Similkameen, Boundary and South Thompson regions.

In Lytton, the mercury reached 34.0 C, eclipsing the town’s old mark of 32.2 C, set in 1928. Cache Creek and Ashcroft were right behind at 33.8 C.

As smoky skies and unseasonable heat persist, Environment Canada reported that there were eight temperature records set on Wednesday, along with one tie, across British Columbia.

Towns and cities where the records were broken spanned the province, though the hottest areas were in the Southern Interior where two cities saw heat inch toward 40 C.

Cooler weather is en route for B.C., with increasing showers or thunderstorms rolling in from Idaho and eastern Washington.