Mother nature isn't ready to give up on summer yet as for the third consecutive day, multiple B.C. communities broke heat records on Wednesday, Sept. 3.

After finishing with the second highest temperature in the province on Tuesday, Ashcroft claimed the top spot on Wednesday, recording a high of 40.8 C, beating its previous record of 35 C for that date, set in 1998. It was also the warmest place in the country on Wednesday. Records have been kept in the area since 1944.

The temperature of 40.8 recorded in Ashcroft on Sept. 3 also had the distinction of being the hottest September day ever recorded anywhere in Canada. The previous record was 40 C, set in Lytton on Sept. 2, 2025 (which tied with two other 40 C September days, in Manitoba in 1906 and in Saskatchewan in 1940.

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