While it’s been a wonderfully slow summer for fires in BC, the Okanagan has had a historic month with August weather. Environment Canada described the month using two words: hot and dry. “We basically had a cycle between warm and hot days. There wasn’t really any cooling,” said Environment Canada meteorologist Bobby Sekhon. Kelowna, Penticton and Vernon all broke records for average monthly temperatures. Kelowna recorded an average temperature of 23.6 C in August, nearly three degrees above the typical August reading of 20.7 C. The previous record was 22.2 C. Penticton recorded an average monthly temperature of 22.9C, above the normal of 20.4C and the previous record of 22.5C. Vernon saw an average August temperature of 23.2C, almost 4.5 degrees above normal at 18.8C and the previous record of 22.2C. While all three major Okanagan cities broke records in August, Sekhon says the slower wildfire activity can be attributed to a very wet month of June. “The fire season is really picking up the tone that was set in June. If we have June rain and we know June is a wet month for the interior, then that usually bodes well for bushfire season,” Sekhon said. “We did see quite a bit of storm activity … that was the cycle we saw – warm followed by a few days of storm activity and then it would create another ridge of fire pressure and we would warm up again. It’s been an interesting pattern this month.” Environment Canada says there were just over 126,000 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes across the province in August, many of which occurred in the Thompson-Okanagan region. That’s 54,000 more strikes than normal.
title: “Okanagan Records Hottest August Ever Kelowna News Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-03” author: “John Delaney”
While it’s been a wonderfully slow summer for fires in BC, the Okanagan has had a historic month with August weather. Environment Canada described the month using two words: hot and dry. “We basically had a cycle between warm and hot days. There wasn’t really any cooling,” said Environment Canada meteorologist Bobby Sekhon. Kelowna, Penticton and Vernon all broke records for average monthly temperatures. Kelowna recorded an average temperature of 23.6 C in August, nearly three degrees above the typical August reading of 20.7 C. The previous record was 22.2 C. Penticton recorded an average monthly temperature of 22.9C, above the normal of 20.4C and the previous record of 22.5C. Vernon saw an average August temperature of 23.2C, almost 4.5 degrees above normal at 18.8C and the previous record of 22.2C. While all three major Okanagan cities broke records in August, Sekhon says the slower wildfire activity can be attributed to a very wet month of June. “The fire season is really picking up the tone that was set in June. If we have June rain and we know June is a wet month for the interior, then that usually bodes well for bushfire season,” Sekhon said. “We did see quite a bit of storm activity … that was the cycle we saw – warm followed by a few days of storm activity and then it would create another ridge of fire pressure and we would warm up again. It’s been an interesting pattern this month.” Environment Canada says there were just over 126,000 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes across the province in August, many of which occurred in the Thompson-Okanagan region. That’s 54,000 more strikes than normal.
title: “Okanagan Records Hottest August Ever Kelowna News Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-10-27” author: “Maurice Mahn”
While it’s been a wonderfully slow summer for fires in BC, the Okanagan has had a historic month with August weather. Environment Canada described the month using two words: hot and dry. “We basically had a cycle between warm and hot days. There wasn’t really any cooling,” said Environment Canada meteorologist Bobby Sekhon. Kelowna, Penticton and Vernon all broke records for average monthly temperatures. Kelowna recorded an average temperature of 23.6 C in August, nearly three degrees above the typical August reading of 20.7 C. The previous record was 22.2 C. Penticton recorded an average monthly temperature of 22.9C, above the normal of 20.4C and the previous record of 22.5C. Vernon saw an average August temperature of 23.2C, almost 4.5 degrees above normal at 18.8C and the previous record of 22.2C. While all three major Okanagan cities broke records in August, Sekhon says the slower wildfire activity can be attributed to a very wet month of June. “The fire season is really picking up the tone that was set in June. If we have June rain and we know June is a wet month for the interior, then that usually bodes well for bushfire season,” Sekhon said. “We did see quite a bit of storm activity … that was the cycle we saw – warm followed by a few days of storm activity and then it would create another ridge of fire pressure and we would warm up again. It’s been an interesting pattern this month.” Environment Canada says there were just over 126,000 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes across the province in August, many of which occurred in the Thompson-Okanagan region. That’s 54,000 more strikes than normal.
title: “Okanagan Records Hottest August Ever Kelowna News Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-15” author: “Christine Lemos”
While it’s been a wonderfully slow summer for fires in BC, the Okanagan has had a historic month with August weather. Environment Canada described the month using two words: hot and dry. “We basically had a cycle between warm and hot days. There wasn’t really any cooling,” said Environment Canada meteorologist Bobby Sekhon. Kelowna, Penticton and Vernon all broke records for average monthly temperatures. Kelowna recorded an average temperature of 23.6 C in August, nearly three degrees above the typical August reading of 20.7 C. The previous record was 22.2 C. Penticton recorded an average monthly temperature of 22.9C, above the normal of 20.4C and the previous record of 22.5C. Vernon saw an average August temperature of 23.2C, almost 4.5 degrees above normal at 18.8C and the previous record of 22.2C. While all three major Okanagan cities broke records in August, Sekhon says the slower wildfire activity can be attributed to a very wet month of June. “The fire season is really picking up the tone that was set in June. If we have June rain and we know June is a wet month for the interior, then that usually bodes well for bushfire season,” Sekhon said. “We did see quite a bit of storm activity … that was the cycle we saw – warm followed by a few days of storm activity and then it would create another ridge of fire pressure and we would warm up again. It’s been an interesting pattern this month.” Environment Canada says there were just over 126,000 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes across the province in August, many of which occurred in the Thompson-Okanagan region. That’s 54,000 more strikes than normal.
