June rains dampen fire activity in Kamloops Fire Centre
KAMLOOPS — June ended up being a soggy month in the Kamloops Fire Centre but that doesn’t mean forest fires won’t return with a vengeance later this summer.
Fire Information Officer Brenna Ward says there was 29.6 millimetres of rain this June (June 1 to June 29) — a huge increase from the 3.4 millimetres seen in all of June 2017.
But despite the rain, she says hot temperatures are expected to return by the middle of next week which means things could change in a real hurry.
“Right now, our fire danger rating in the Kamloops Fire Centre is low to very low with a few pockets of moderate but it doesn’t take much for that to change,” she says. “And it could just require a week of high temperatures and low humidity.”