Three Interior B.C. communities broke temperature records Thursday amid an ongoing heat wave

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Temperature records broken in three Interior BC communities.

Three Interior B.C. communities saw their hottest-ever days on record Thursday, including two in the South Okanagan-Similkameen.

Osoyoos hit a sweltering 39.3 C, beating the decades-old previous record of 38.3 C set in 1971.

Records have been kept in the town that bills itself as "Canada's warmest welcome" since 1954. 

Princeton also saw a scorcher, tying its 2003 record of 38.3 C. Records there have been kept since 1893.

Hottest of all was Lytton, where the mercury hit 41.4 C, beating its 2018 record of 41.1 C. Lytton's records stretch back to 1921. 

And the heat wave is far from over. 

"There's still a chance maybe today that we might break a record," said Doug Lundquist, Environment Canada meteorologist. 

"I'm not going to forecast who would, because it could be anybody."