Seven communities across central and northern B.C. saw their warmest Jan. 14 on record Wednesday, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada.
The highest record-breaking temperature was recorded in Tatlayoko Lake, a small settlement about 265 kilometres southwest of Williams Lake.
ECCC has been recording weather data in the area since 1930, and Wednesday saw the warmest daily high temperature for Jan. 14 on record: 12.3 C.
That narrowly exceeded the previous record of 12.2 C, which was set 83 years ago in 1943, making it the oldest temperature record to be broken Wednesday.
On the other side of the province, near the Alberta border, Dawson Creek broke the most recent record of the seven set Wednesday. The mercury rose to 11.6 C in that community, eclipsing the previous record of 8.3 C, which was set last year, Jan. 14, 2025.
The full list of high-temperature records set Wednesday follows.
- Dawson Creek area: New record of 11.6 C, old record of 8.3 C set in 2025
- Dease Lake area: New record of 4.4 C, old record of 3.1 C set in 2017
- Fort St. John area: New record of 8.8 C, old record of 8.3 C set in 1965
- Kitimat area: New record of 8.4 C, old record of 8 C set in 2014
- Mackenzie area: New record of 8.5 C, old record of 6.3 C set in 2014
- Sparwood area: New record of 8.5 C, old record of 6.8 C set in 1994
- Tatlayoko Lake area: New record of 12.3 C, old record of 12.2 C set in 1943
Wednesday was the second consecutive day that B.C. has broken records for warm weather. On Tuesday, more than a dozen communities set or tied high temperature records for Jan. 13.
ECCC says the temperature records it reports “have been derived from a selection of historical stations in each geographic area that were active during the period of record.”