By Greg Fry

Weather a study of contrasts in 2017 for Kamloops

Jan 4, 2018 | 11:22 AM

KAMLOOPS — It was a tale of two stories when one looks back at the weather in Kamloops last year.

Environment Canada meteorologist Lisa West says winter and spring in 2017 were wetter than normal but was followed up by the driest summer on record.

“In the months of June, July and August, Kamloops only received 8.6 millimetres of precipitation and the average is normally 93 millimetres. So that’s a record low dating back to when records started in 1895.”

She says last summer was even substantially drier than the second driest on record – the summer of 1967 when there was only 22.6 millimetres of precipitation.

Because of the wet winter and spring, West notes 2017 was still just the twenty-second driest on record with 214 millimetres of precipitation. The yearly average is 278 millimetres.

One Man's Opinion

COLLINS: Kamloops-Thompson School District continues to face huge uphill battle

4h ago

The Creative Edge

PEARCE: What is prosperity and how do we truly define it?

Nov 06, 2024

Question of the Week

If the time change was eliminated in B.C., which time would you prefer?

Nov 04, 2024