Canada has recorded its highest temperatures on record as the country’s west, along with the US Pacific north-west, suffer an unprecedented heatwave.
The village of Lytton, in the interior of southern British Columbia, saw the mercury hit 46.6C on Sunday – an all-time high in the country’s 84-year-old record, officials said.
The previous national record was 45C, which was set in Yellow Grass and Midale in Saskatchewan in July 1937.