Wildfire smoke has been thicker, lingered longer over Kamloops this year than any in recent memory: province
KAMLOOPS — There is debate around whether this has been the worst fire season in recent memory for the B.C. Interior, but when it comes to the smoke in the air, there is no debate.
Ben Weinstein is the senior air quality meteorologist with the province’s Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy.
Weinstein says the province has an ‘air quality objective’ of 25 micrograms-per-cubic-metre of PM2.5. So far this year, there have been 33 full days — 24 consecutive hours each — when smoke levels in Kamloops have exceeded that objective.
In comparison, by this time in 2017, there had been only 23 such days.