Thursday was a scorcher but it wasn't a record setter.
The high for the day reached 31.4 C, and although hot, was still short of the mark for July 9 of 32.2 C, set in 1926, according to Environment Canada.
There definitely won't be any records for the next week or so as the temperature is forecast to decline to the mid-to-low 20s for daytime highs with a chance of showers and, on Saturday, thunder and lightning storms.
Meanwhile, a lightning-caused forest fire about 80 kilometres east of Prince George in the Grizzly Den-Sugarbowl area has grown to 50 hectares since it was first discovered Wednesday.
Further east, two smaller lightning-caused fire, covering 0.5 hectares near Mount Robson Provincial Park and 0.1 hectares at East Kinnbasket Lake remain active. And a person-caused fire that erupted this week within the 25,000 hectares the Little Bobtail Lake fire covered before it was contained has been extinguished.
