By Greg Fry

Kamloops enjoying warmer, drier weather

Dec 13, 2017 | 10:43 AM

KAMLOOPS — If you’re feeling like it’s been warmer and drier than normal so far this month in Kamloops, you are correct.

In fact, Environment Canada says over the past month temperatures have been about 3.7 degrees above average.

“Which is really quite extroardinary,” says meteorologist Doug Lundquist. “In the last 30 days, there were only maybe two or three days there at the beginning of December where we were below average.”

He attributes the seasonally balmy temperatures to an unusually strong ridge of high pressure and warm air flow down from Hawaii.

Lundquist adds it’s been a whole lot drier too, with just three millimetres of precipitation this month so far.

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“We usually have ten times that much in the month of December but it’s early yet.”

And he warns a cold front is in the forecast which will likely hit a week from now. Lundquist says it could mean Kamloops will have a white Christmas though it’s still too early to say for certain.