Yesterday we told you that the village of Lytton in British Columbia, Canada reached the staggering temperature of 47.9°C, a day after it reached 46.6°C for the first time in history. Today it was confirmed that the record was once again broken, as Lytton reached 49.6°C.

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Yesterday we told you that the village of Lytton in British Columbia, Canada reached the staggering temperature of 47.9°C, a day after it reached 46.6°C for the first time in history.

Today it was confirmed that the record was once again broken, as Lytton reached 49.6°C.

So far, more than 130 sudden deaths have been reported in the province of British Columbia since Friday. Nearby in the US north-west a number of fatalities have also been recorded amid the extreme heat.

Before Sunday, the hottest Canada had ever been was 45°C in 1937. That record has now been broken three days in a row, with an overall increase of 4.6°C - in what meteorologists have dubbed an "unfathomable margin".

The village of Lytton, where these records are being recorded, is about 250km east of Vancouver. Extraordinarily, it lies on roughly the same latitude as places like Brussels and London.

Joe Biden today said that climate change is driving this extreme heat, while pledging to "act and act fast."