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By Victor Kaisar

Heat Wave

Kamloops-area communities set new daily temperature records for fourth day in a row

Aug 28, 2025 | 11:28 AM

KAMLOOPS — New data from Environment Canada shows several Kamloops-area communities set new daily temperature records for the fourth consecutive day because of the ongoing spell of unseasonably warm weather in the province.

According to preliminary numbers from the weather agency, daily temperature records were either set or tied in 14 B.C. communities on Wednesday (Aug. 27), including in the Village of Lytton which also crossed the 40 C threshold for the fourth consecutive day.

Lytton reached a daytime high of 40.1 C, which broke the previous Aug. 27 record of 38.2 C set in 2017, with records going back to 1921. It was the coolest day of the week in the Fraser Canyon community as the mercury reached 40.3 C on Sunday and 41.3 C on Monday and Tuesday.

Kamloops also set a new daily record for the fourth day in a row as the mercury topped out at 37 C Wednesday. It was exactly two degrees warmer than the previous record of 35 C set in 1933, with records going back to 1890.

Cache Creek (39.5 C) and Lillooet (39.4 C) also came close to the 40 C threshold Wednesday as both communities set new daily records. The previous Aug. 27 record in Cache Creek was 36.1 set in 2017, while Lillooet’s old record of 37.2 C was set in 1934.

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While Cache Creek set a new temperature record for the fourth day in a row, Lillooet did not cross its record threshold on Monday, though it did on Sunday and Tuesday as well.

New daily records were also set in Blue River (33.8 C), Clearwater (36.1 C), Clinton (33.3 C) Wednesday with Clearwater and Clinton also setting daily records for the fourth day in a row.

Environment Canada continues to maintain its heat warnings for the South Thompson and the Fraser Canyon with temperatures expected to be between 34 C and 38 C until the end of this week.

The latest data from the BC Wildfire Service showed 82 active blazes in B.C. Thursday (Aug. 28), up from 68. As of publishing, there were 19 new starts and six fires declared out over the past 24 hours.

The B.C. government is also reminding people about new campfire bans that will take effect in the Kamloops and Cariboo Fire Centres at noon today, ahead of the Labour Day long weekend.

A campfire ban has been in effect for the majority of the Coastal Fire Centre since the middle of July.

You can find the latest updates from Environment Canada on this heat warning here and the latest on the wildfire front from the BC Wildfire Service here.