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By CFJC Today

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Kamloops wakes to cold Christmas Day

Dec 25, 2021 | 10:41 AM

KAMLOOPS – Kamloops residents are experiencing bone chilling weather as an artic front dips into southern B.C.

Christmas morning began with wind gusts of more than 30 km/hr and temperatures near minus 15. Combined, Environment Canada calculated the wind chill value at minus 26.

The temperature is expected to dip lower over the course of the day as the cold front pushes further south. Wind gusts of up to 60 km/hr predicted, wind chill values could approach minus 30.

The average high for Kamloops is -1. Environment Canada has predicted temperatures to remain well below all week. AccuWeather’s long-range forecast team believes the frigid weather could linger through the end of the year.

Environment Canada has issued an Extreme Cold weather warning for residents of Clinton and 100 Mile House. It says northerly winds combined with overnight lows in the minus 30s will generate extreme wind chill values of at least minus 40.

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It expects the dangerously cold conditions will continue into the week.