BC Towns Shatter Heat Records in Early Spring Heatwave

0:00It's April 20th. This is Canada News Today, powered by AI. I'm Corey with the story. Four British Columbia towns crushed or matched their April 19 heat records on Sunday as a warm front rolled through the province. Cash Creek in the interior topped out at 27.1 degrees Celsius, smashing a mark for more than 40 years back. That new high beat the old 25 degrees from 1981 by over 2 degrees. Clinton nearby hit 21.1, just edging out its 2010 record of 20.7. These breaks span decades of history. Some records stood untouched for half a century or more, highlighting how unusual this early spring scorch was for. Folks in those spots, up north on Vancouver Island, Port Hardy pushed past 19 degrees, dethroning a 50-year-old benchmark from 1950. Homeaux, right there tied its 109-year-old high of 20 degrees, first set in 1915. With warmth like this, kicking off the season, BC's weather is serving up surprises that

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