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Kamloops hit a record-high temperature on Sunday

If you thought it felt more like golf weather than ski weather on Sunday, you were right. November 26th felt a little more like March 26th in Kamloops and a new temperature record was set with a high of 15.1 C — just slightly edging out the 1949 record of 15.0 C for November 26th.

Recent temperatures into the double digits are very out of character for this time of year, when the average high is around 3 C and the average low is -4 C. November 24th saw the second highest temperature on record with 12.1 C and the 23rd saw the fourth highest temperature on record with 14.6 C.

“Certainly in the last week and a half, as soon as we got out of that first arctic outbreak that lasted the first 10 days of November, things have been on a much warmer spectrum,” said Environment Canada meteorologist Armel Castellan.

“In the last week or so we've seen records or near records in so much of the southern Interior and the coast.”

The warmer temperatures were the result of a very strong atmospheric river stemming just east of Hawaii and coming into the mid latitudes in B.C., Castellan said.

“With that comes a lot of moisture that primarily hits the coast and then it dries out by the time you get into the Interior, but the temperatures remain there and that's why you dealt with these double-digit highs,” he said.

While temperatures will trend above average for the rest of the week, they aren’t expected to reach the teens and will drop by next week. A high of 8 C was forecast for Monday, and highs throughout the rest of the week will fluctuate between 7 C and 3 C, according to Environment Canada.

“I would definitely call this above average,” Castellan said. “It's not in the double digits so it's not way above average. . . but the trend is definitely tapering off to more normal temperatures come this weekend."

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By the first and second week of December, Castellan said temperatures will resemble more winter-like conditions.

“We can even see temperatures dip more substantially below 0 C, certainly starting to edge toward that -10 C by kind of the start of next week is not out of the possibility," he said.

“If we look beyond the weekend, into next week and the week after, things are starting to look a lot more like December.”

Castellan said a weak La Niña will bring slightly colder and wetter conditions this winter, but the cooler weather might not be obvious on a day-to-day basis. He said the colder average might not be evident until we look back on the winter come March.



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