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By James Peters

Rainy Days

Typical June rains show up two weeks late to southern B.C.

Jul 4, 2019 | 1:54 PM

KAMLOOPS — June is typically a wet month in the southern Interior, but Environment Canada says some of the precipitation we missed out on last month is just late to the party.

“We had a fairly dry June, and that’s because the cold low season that brings this precipitation was delayed by a couple of weeks,” said forecaster Bobby Sekhon. “So we’re kind of seeing that pattern more in the past week or so, and that’s continuing into the first week of July.”

“We’ve got an upper low coming down from the Northeast and that’s packing a bit of a punch here, bringing lots of showery precipitation — and heavy showers at that — for many parts of southern B.C.”

Sekhon notes the moisture will be here for the rest of the week and well into the weekend.

“The heaviest precipitation should last from now until Saturday evening, basically. We’re expecting the totals by Saturday evening to be in the 30-to-40-millimetre range,” he said.

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“This will be showery precipitation, meaning it’s not going to be uniform, you may see some periods where it’s raining and then periods of heavier rain,” Sekhon added. “It’s going to be kind of like that until basically Saturday evening and then Sunday things start to weaken a little bit, however we still remain unsettled into next week.”