Record temperatures have been set along the Yukon/B.C. border, with new daily high records set at Faro, Environment Canada reports.

A combination of surface and upper weather features combined Monday to bring the warm temperatures to the Yukon and northern B.C. Monday on the heels of a numbing cold snap.

The circulation around a surface high pressure area centred near Great Slave Lake, N.W.T., combined with a surface low in the Gulf of Alaska, reinforced by a sharp upper ridge over B.C. and into Alaska, brought warm air streaming northward from near Hawaii, the Yukon Weather Centre reports.

Records were also set at Muncho Lake, Tetsa River, Fort Nelson, and Sikanni Chief in northern B.C.

Fort Nelson reached 10.1 C, beating the old record of 2.8 C set in 1953. It was the warmest spot in Canada the centre's Bill Miller could find.