A girl plays in a spray park at Jefferson Park during a heat wave in Seattle, United States on June 27, 2021. - REUTERS/Karen Ducey
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP): A "heat dome" over western Canada and the US Pacific northwest sent temperatures soaring to new highs of 46.6°C, triggering heat warnings from Oregon to Canada's Arctic territories on Sunday (June 27).
Hotspot Lytton in British Columbia – about 250km northeast of Vancouver – broke the record "for Canada's all time maximum high" with a temperature of 46.6°C, said Environment Canada.
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