Weather tracker: British Columbia breaks Canada’s September heat record

Temperatures in Lytton and Ashcroft climb to 40C, while a powerful hailstorm lashes Kansas and Oklahoma

A spate of extremely hot weather in British Columbia has broken Canada’s national maximum temperature record for September.

On Tuesday, it reached 40C (104F) in Lytton, matching the previous all-time high. This is only the third time that temperature has been recorded in the country in September.