Communities in the Kamloops area surpass daytime high records for May 3

May 4, 2026 | 7:12 AM

KAMLOOPS — Some daily high temperature records were broken in the Kamloops area for May 3, while the city gave a near 90-year-old record a run for its money.

According to preliminary figures from Environment Canada’s daily weather summaries, Cache Creek set a new daytime high temperature record of 31.2 C on Sunday (May 3), surpassing 29.4 C set on the same day in 1945.

Further west, Lillooet reached a daytime high of 31.1 on Sunday, surpassing the previous record of 30.6 C on May 3, 1937.

A new daytime high for May 3 was set in Merritt with 28.5 C recorded on Sunday. However, weather hobbyists don’t have to search too far for the previous record of 28.2 C set in 2016.

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Records in the Cache Creek area have been kept since 1944, while Lillooet and Merritt records have been kept since 1917 and 1918, respectively.

In Kamloops, a daytime high of 30.4 C was reached at YKA Sunday. However, it fell slightly below the record 30.6 C set back on May 3, 1937.

The daytime high records being broken and challenged come as forecasters predict temperatures in the Kamloops area to be above seasonal norms for early May.

by Aaron Schulze

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Communities in the Kamloops area surpass daytime high records for May 3

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