It certainly was a scorcher last week in the Swift Current area and one of the days has made it into the record books.

On Friday Swift Current's temperature reached 37.8 C breaking the city's July 2 record of 36.7 C set back in 1895.

Terri Lang, a meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada, said there was a pair of reasons Swift Current wasn't battered with the extreme heat parts of B.C. received.

"The axis of the highest temperatures was over British Columbia," she said. "Plus what happens underneath a heat dome is the air is sinking and when air sinks it warms. Through the canyons and valleys through British Columbia, there's extra heating, it's a desert, so it heats up even more through there."

Up until last week Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan held Canada's warmest temperature ever recorded at 45 C set on July 5, 1937, but that was brushed aside by Lytton, B.C. three times last week reaching a new national record of 49.6 C on June 29.

The 37.8 C reached in Swift Current falls well short of the monthly and all-time record, as that was set back on July 12 of 1886 reaching 41.7 C.