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By James Peters

Smoke in the Air

Wildfire smoke to make muted return to B.C.

Sep 30, 2020 | 11:25 AM

KAMLOOPS — Environment Canada says smoke expected to drift into the B.C. Interior in the coming days should not be nearly as thick as the haze that descended on Kamloops earlier this month.

Weather patterns are expected to bring a return of wildfire smoke from the United States.

“It’s going to move up in the higher elevations and I don’t think it will surface,” Forecaster Doug Lundquist told CFJC Today. “So even though we’ll see that murkiness, smoke, perhaps greyish-brownish sky, it really won’t surface — certainly not to the level we saw a week or two ago.”

“Maybe just enough to pump the air quality into the ‘moderate’ category, perhaps — maybe ‘high’ on the coast in some locations for a few hours, but nothing like we saw,” he continued. “By Sunday already, the wind pattern is changing aloft and will bring in cleaner air from the Pacific. So if it doesn’t happen in the next three or four days, we’re not going to get any this time at all.”

Meantime, a ridge of high pressure that has given the Interior sunshine and above normal temperatures is not expected to leave us anytime soon.

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Lundquist says the forecast high is 26 degrees Celsius for Kamloops Wednesday (Sept. 30), but it’s not likely to set new records.

“We probably won’t, but there have been some in a few locations. Merritt and Clinton, I think, had some in the last couple of days,” said Lundquist. “We’re close but we really need a wind this time of year to break the inversion. It’s already getting into fall and we’re starting to see fog and stratus (clouds) up toward the Shuswap.”