A display at an Olympia Federal Savings branch shows a temperature of 41.6 degrees Celsius , on June 28, 2021, in Olympia.
Most of the dead in the Vancouver suburbs of Burnaby and Surrey over the past 24 hours were elderly or people with underlying health conditions, the Vancouver Police Department said. "Although still under investigation, heat is believed to be a contributing factor in the majority of the deaths," RCMP Corporal Michael Kalanj said in a statement.Globally, the decade to 2019 was the hottest recorded, and the five hottest years have all occurred within the last five years.
On Monday, Canada set a new all-time high temperature record of 47.9 degrees Celsius in Lytton in British Columbia, about 250 km east of Vancouver.
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