Unseasonably warm temperatures continue all week in Kamloops, Okanagan

Temperatures are forecast to continue in the low to mid-30s though this week in Kamloops and the Okanagan.

Normal high temperatures for this time of year are 27 Celsius.

Clouds are expected mid-week with a 30% chance of overnight showers forecast by Environment Canada Wednesday and Friday.

Despite that, high temperatures for Kamloops are forecast to be 35 C today, Aug. 8, and tomorrow before very gradually dropping off to 31 C next weekend.

Penticton is also forecast to reach 35 C today but the North and Central Okanagan will be a couple of degrees cooler.

By next weekend the high temperatures in the Okanagan are expected to reach 29 C.

There’s a chance of local smoke as the Keremeos Creek wildfire, 21 kilometres southwest of Penticton, continues to burn. It had reached more than 5,900 hectares by yesterday morning.

The Watching Creek wildfire, 16 km northwest of Kamloops, was at 270 hectares yesterday morning.

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