Warm, sunny fall weekend forecast for Kamloops, Okanagan

As has been the pattern for most of the last few months, dry, sunny weather is forecast to continue through the weekend in the Okanagan and Kamloops. In fact, according to AccuWeather’s forecast, there is a less than a 25% chance of precipitation through until Friday, Oct. 21. That...

Warm, sunny fall weekend forecast for Kamloops, Okanagan

As has been the pattern for most of the last few months, dry, sunny weather is forecast to continue through the weekend in the Okanagan and Kamloops.

In fact, according to AccuWeather’s forecast, there is a less than a 25% chance of precipitation through until Friday, Oct. 21. That will rise to more than 70% on that weekend. The chance of cloud and precipitation is to continue well into November.

The Environment Canada forecast for Kamloops shows a high of 20 Celsius today, Oct. 13, rising to 23 C by Sunday with sunny skies. Overnight lows are expected to be in the 7 to 9 C range.

Normal highs for this time of year in Kamloops are 14 C with overnight lows of 3 C.

The Okanagan is also looking at mostly sunny skies through the weekend. Highs of 18 C today are expected to rise to 21 C by Sunday with overnight lows of 5 C to 8 C.

The normal Okanagan high temperatures for this time of year are in the 12 C range with overnight lows of 3 C.

While many parts of B.C. are experiencing serious drought, the Thompson-Okanagan is ranked as Level 3 where some adverse impacts are possible.

The highest level is a 5 where adverse impacts are almost certain. Parts of the South Coast and Vancouver Island are ranked at Level 5. Victoria and Sechelt, for example, had their last appreciable rainfall in early July.

The situation is not as grim in Kamloops or the Okanagan but it has still been weeks since there’s been much in the way of rainfall and that was mostly in the form of isolated thundershowers.

Kelowna had only one millimetre of rain in all of September and the last significant rainfall of 17.4 mm was on Aug. 22.

Kamloops had nine mm on Sept. 14 but only 11.5 mm for all of September.

Only eight mm of rain fell in Kamloops in August and the last significant rainfall before the September event was July 18 with 9.1 mm.

While September wasn’t record breaking in the Thompson-Okanagan, it was close to being the hottest and driest on record in many locations.

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