By Ashley Legassic

Snow could fall as soon as Friday in Kamloops

Nov 5, 2018 | 3:32 PM

KAMLOOPS — It may have been a warmer-than-normal start to November in Kamloops, but it won’t last for long.

Environment Canada Meteorologist Bobby Sekhon says cooler temperatures — maybe even snow — could be coming to the city within the week.

“Cooler air will take place and we’ll see below normal temperatures. For example, Wednesday is sunny with a high of four degrees — the normal this time of year being seven degrees,” Sekhon says. “Friday it looks like we have a chance of snow or rain because the temperature is going to be quite low and there is a weak disturbance moving through, so we’ll see how that goes.”

This comes after unusually warm temperatures to start off November, with highs of up to 14 C in the first few days of the month. The normal high for this time of year is 7 C, and Sekhon points out the warmer temperatures are due to a weather system off the Pacific Ocean that brought rain showers to the city.

In just the first four days of November, Kamloops has already seen as much rain as it normally does throughout the whole month.

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“So far the total precipitation around the area has been 14.5 millimetres of rain,” Sekhon says. “If we look at the normals for the area, the average rainfall is 14.2 millimetres, so we’re already kind of at the normal rainfall for the month… As we trend toward a cooler forecast in the coming week here, it is certainly possible that we’ve seen most of the rain for the month and toward the end of the month we might see more in the way of snow.”