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By Dylana Kneeshaw

KAMLOOPS HEAT WARNING

Environment Canada expects South Thompson heat to drop by mid-week

Aug 11, 2025 | 4:18 PM

KAMLOOPS — For a second time this summer, the Kamloops region has been placed under a heat warning and Environment Canada says the near-record temperatures aren’t helping keep the wildfire smoke at bay.

Meteorologist Brian Proctor says the region has seen a trend of shorter hot-weather windows, instead of seven-to-19-day blocks of extreme heat. This week is following that trend, with temperatures forecast to begin dropping by Wednesday (Aug. 13).

“We’re not seeing those locked in periods well into the 30s (Celsius). You know, if we get a few days of 30s then we drop it back in the high 20s and not giving us that sort of really extended period of heat either, yet — and it doesn’t look like we’re going to see that really this August. It looks like we’re going to see these transitory features coming through still,” notes Proctor.

“Warm for three or four days maybe at the most, cool it back down, warm it back up, but nothing that is going to lock us in for seven-to-10 days of real heat.”

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According to Proctor, the heat is partly to blame for the diminished air quality in the area. Smoke from nearby wildfires has made its way into the area, with the hot weather actually heightening how much of it comes down to the valley level.

“We’re seeing more active wildfires out there on the landscape and we’re seeing more smoke accordingly accumulate, if you want to put it that way. One of the implications is when we see these ridges of high pressure, we get a lot of subsident flow off in the atmosphere,” added Proctor.

“The smoke that’s up there tends to come back down toward the surface and we see more and more of it and that’s definitely what’s been happening over the last little while.”