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By James Peters

Weather

Weather extremes balanced out to make January an average month

Feb 4, 2020 | 11:22 AM

KAMLOOPS — January was a month of weather extremes in Kamloops, but it all smoothed out to the averages in the end.

According to Environment Canada, Kamloops saw a total of 20.9 millimetres of precipitation last month, compared to an average of 21.1 millimetres.

Much of that precipitation fell as snow during the first two weeks of the month, when the Interior received snow nearly every day.

Looking at the thermometer, forecaster Bobby Sekhon says the mean daily temperature was -2.1 C, slightly higher than the January average of -2.8 C.

“However, that doesn’t really tell the story,” Sekhon told CFJC Today. “As you recall, we had a cold middle of January and then a warm end to January. It was really two extremes we saw in the Kamloops area that kind of cancel each other out and give this near-average January.”

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“We saw temperatures in January all the way up to 10.8 C above freezing around the 29th of January, and all the way down to -23.9 C around the 15th of January. So it was a stark contrast from middle to end of month,” he continued.

The forecast is calling for near-freezing temperatures for the rest of this week with plenty of precipitation, turning from snow to rain toward the end of the week.