Environment Canada
More snow falling on Coq and Hope-Princeton
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – A dump of snow on the Coquihalla and the Hope-Princeton highways overnight is being following with another heavy snowfall today. A vigorous cold front passed through the Southwest Interior overnight dropping 10 to 15 centimetres of snow on the Coquihalla Summit and the Allison Pass, according to a Special Weather Statement from Environment...
Kamloops brings the heat, sets new weather record
KAMLOOPS - With temperatures soaring above 22 Celsius, it’s a new high temperature record for March 27 in Kamloops. By 4:45 p.m., Environment Canada was reporting temperatures of 22.6 C. The previously recorded high was 21.1 C in 1930. According to the weather office, temperatures will remain at or just above seasonal normals of 14...
It’s back… snow expected overnight
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - We just knew it was too good to be true, Mother Nature is set to remind us winter is not quite over with a couple centimetres of snow by Friday morning and well below normal low temperatures early next week. Environment Canada is forecasting high temperatures to be within the seasonal normals of...
Spring-like weather may be interrupted by snow
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - We’ve been experiencing spring-like weather here in the Southern Interior and while that is not set to change we may see another blitz of snow before Saturday. Environment Canada is still calling for above seasonal normal temperatures during the day but with overnight lows close to seasonal normals of -3 Celsius and a...
Where is the fog going to show up next?
EVEN THE METEOROLOGISTS AREN'T TOO SURE KELOWNA - It may not seem like a real valley inversion — the kind locals dread which leaves a thick layer of cloud hovering just overhead, lasting sometimes for weeks — but the inversion and the rolling fog clouds it is causing are very real, enough to cause flight...
Penticton breaks warm weather record
KAMLOOPS – The spring-like weather continues for Penticton with a record high temperature on Sunday, Feb. 8. The mercury rose to 13 C, breaking the old record of 11.1 C on the same day in 1945, according to Environment Canada’s website. To put things into perspective, the normal high for his time of year is...
Record breaking warm temperatures
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – If it felt like spring on Friday it might have been the record breaking spring-like high temperatures. Four communities in the Thompson-Okanagan broke high temperature records on Feb. 6. The high temperature recorded at the Kelowna Airport was 11.7 C, snapping the old record of 7.6 C in 1978, according to Environment Canada....
Heavy snow and freezing rain on the way
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - A winter storm is bringing heavy snow to much of the province today and tonight and the Southern Interior is no exception. Environment Canada says to expect heavy snow on Highway 1 from Eagle Pass to Rogers Pass—up to 25 centimetres by Friday morning—and on Highway 3 from Paulson Summit to Kootenay Pass....
UPDATE: Heavy snow on the way
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - More snow is in the forecast for the North Okanagan, Shuswap and North Thompson areas. Environment Canada issued a snowfall warning for the North Okanagan and Shuswap regions at 1:54 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015, calling for approximately 10 cm of snow. By 7:30 p.m. the warning was extended to include the North...
Temperatures continue upswing
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - After a dump of nearly 40 centimetres of snow in many parts of the Southern Interior we are now looking at temperatures above seasonal normals all week. According to Environment Canada we can expect to see highs of about 2 Celsius Monday and Tuesday and of 0 C Wednesday and Thursday. By the...
Chaos reigns on the roads and highways during snow storm
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – Emergency crews were kept hopping Sunday as mother nature hit the Southern Interior with a major dump of the snow, the first huge dump of the winter. A severe winter storm warning was issued by Environment Canada Saturday predicting 10 centimetres of snow in the valley bottoms and up to 40 cm on...
There is an end in sight to the snow
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – It’s been a long time since the Thompson-Okanagan received such a massive dump of snow in such a short time. “It has been quite an amazing snowfall so far,” Environment Canada meteorologist Lisa Coldwells says. By 10 a.m. Monday, we were looking at amounts which ranged from 25 centimetres in the South Okanagan,...
UPDATE: Winter storm slamming Southern Interior
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – A warning from Environment Canada about a strong winter storm advancing from the B.C. coast and arriving in the Southern Interior Sunday morning has been updated and confirms more snow will fall than originally expected. A clash of warm, moist Pacific air with the already entrenched arctic air will lead to significant snowfall...
North Okanagan fog phenomenon explained
VERNON - It’s beginning to look a lot like Fog-ville. The Vernon and Armstrong areas have been socked in with low-lying fog on and off for days, leaving the region cloaked in the wrong kind of white stuff for the holidays. So what’s causing the stubborn fog, and when will it be on its merry...
Intense storm dropped record rain at rapid rate
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - Several rainfall records were broken Wednesday but a local meteorologist says it is the rate of the rainfall that is the big story. “A record rain doesn’t really tell the story, the real story is the speed which it came out of the clouds,” Doug Lundquist of Environment Canada says. “You can have...