February a month of weather extremes in Kamloops

Mar 1, 2018 | 3:26 PM

KAMLOOPS —Cold, wet and snowy.

That in a nutshell describes the weather in Kamloops last month.

Environment Canada Meteorologist Doug Lundquist says there was 52 millimetres of precipitation in February – that’s rain and snow melted, and there’s only usually 12.

“It was about 400 per cent of normal. So, it was the fifth wettest February that we have on record. And then we drilled down a little further and found it was also the fourth snowiest February on record with 50 centimetres. The snowiest was 62 centimetres in 1904.”