Weather Appreciation

[Queen K]

Ya! I'd appreciate some tho.

[Glacier]

June is typically the wettest month of the year in Kelowna, It's the only month where the monthly average precipitation exceeds 40 mm, but even for June this month is a very wet.

Here are the totals for June thus far for all stations within 200 km of Kelowna. Notice that only the two bolded places have not yet exceeded the monthly average. Kelowna and Winfield are already at twice the normal amount... and the month is not over yet!

CITY (DISTANCE FROM KELOWNA) = JUNE 2012 PRECIP (AVERAGE JUNE PRECIP}

Kelowna (0 km away) = 92.4 mm {average is 40.7 mm}
Winfield (10 km away) = 79.2 mm {average is 37.9 mm}
Peachland (33 km away) = 64.2 mm {average is 43.8 mm}
Coldstream (35 km away) = 81.1 mm {average is 53.9 mm}
Vernon (45 km away) = 82.7 mm
Summerland (48 km away) = 63.6 mm {average is 36.2 mm}

Salmon Arm Airport (83 km away) = 116.7 mm {average is 63.0 mm}
Salmon Arm (84 km away) = 93.1 mm
Jellicoe (85 km away) = 55.4 mm
Hedley (87 km away) = 41.4 mm {average is 44.5 mm}

Osoyoos (103 km away) = 52.0 mm {average is 35.9 mm}
Princeton (109 km away) = 17.8 mm {average is 35.6 mm}
Midway (118 km away) = 92.2 mm
Merritt (119 km away) = 34.6 mm {average is 34.1 mm}
Kamloops (122 km away) = 68.8 mm {average is 35.2 mm}
Nakusp (140 km way) = 81 mm {average is 77.5 mm}

Revelstoke Airport (154 km away) = 136.3 mm {average is 73.3 mm}
Castlegar (154 km away) = 173.1 mm {average is 64.3 mm}
Revelstoke (154 km away) = 139.9 mm
Red Lake (163 km away) = 127.3 mm
Criss Creek (166 km away) = 101.2 mm
Hope Slide (173 km away) = 79.6 mm {average is 59.9 mm}
Ashcroft (182 km away) = 59.2 mm
Vavenby (184 km away) = 68 mm {average is 55.1 mm}
Nelson (185 km away) = 188.6 mm
Lytton (189 km away) = 25.0 mm {average is 18.8 mm}
Hope (190 km away) = 157 mm {average is 93.1 mm}

[Lady tehMa]

huh . . . so even though it is wetter, it isn't wetter across the board? I wonder how Hedley and Princeton ended up with less when everyone else is soaked to the bone. . .

[Glacier]

Wettness is never universal, especially in the summer. Last summer Williams Lake had one of the wettest July-Augusts on record last year, while Kamloops and Kelowna were both drier than normal.

Thunderstorms are hit and miss, dumping huge amounts in one area and completely missing another. Another thing about summertime is that thunderstorms are more frequent as you head east, so places out west like Princeton would have less thunderstorms than us.

Also, June is the wettest month of the year in Kelowna and Kamloops, but in Lytton it's one of the driest months of the year. Actually, June, July, and August are the three wettest months of they year in Kelowna and Kamloops, whereas they are the three driest months of the year in Lytton.

P.S. Some parts of BC are in the high fire danger category.

[Glacier]

June 2012 was the wettest June ever recorded in Kelowna (records began in 1899, and data is available from 15 different locations):



Here is a list of all occurrences of 100 or more millimeters being recorded in June in Kelowna:

• 2012: 106.6 mm
• 1990: 102.5 mm {note: Kelowna Lakeview (West Kelowna)recorded 105.7 that month.}
• 2007: 101 mm

[Glacier]

How wet was it last month, you ask? Very! Castlegar was the worst hit place in the province ending up 366% of normal! ie. 3.66 times wetter than the average. Even if we don't get another drop of rain for the rest of summer, this summer will be wetter than the average.



Most above normal places in BC (for which data is already available):

LOCATION----------% OF NORMAL
CASTLEGAR BCHPA DAM----366
CASTLEGAR A----------------346
KELOWNA----------------------262
WINFIELD---------------------247
NEW DENVER------------------243
GOLDEN------------------------241
MICA DAM---------------------240
CRANBROOK-------------------233
BLUE RIVER------------------223
VERNON------------------------212
KAMLOOPS---------------------212
SALMON ARM------------------197
POWER RIVER----------------190
FORT NELSON----------------190
AGASSIZ----------------------185
CAMPELL RIVER-------------184
WILLIAMS LAKE-------------180

Least above normal list. It's likely that places way up north like Atlin were also drier than normal, but data is missing for at least one day last month.


LOCATION------------------% OF NORMAL
QUATSINO LIGHTSTATION-------------97
LYTTON------------------------------------100
LANGARA----------------------------------102
SHAWNIGAN LAKE------------------------110
EGG ISLAND------------------------------115
ADDENBROKE ISLAND-------------------117
CHETWYND---------------------------------118
FORT ST JOHN---------------------------118
STEWART----------------------------------118
DEASE LAKE------------------------------120
WHISTLER---------------------------------124
SAANICHTON------------------------------129
MERRITT----------------------------------129
STUIE TWEEDSMUIR LODGE------------129

MOST precipitation:

LOCATION------------------Precipitation (mm)
BOAT BLUFF------------------------------373.6
BELLA BELLA----------------------------263.7
NELSON RIXEN CREEK------------------261.4
CASTLEGAR BCHPA DAM----------------235.5
DRYAD POINT----------------------------230.8
NOOTKA LIGHTSTATION----------------228.6
NELSON CS-------------------------------228.4
CASTLEGAR A----------------------------227.7
IVORY ISLAND---------------------------226.8
UCLUELET KENNEDY CAMP-------------226.6
NELSON NE-------------------------------216.2
BLUE RIVER A---------------------------213.2



LEAST precipitation:

LOCATION------------------Precipitation (mm)
LYTTON RCS------------------------------17.7
LYTTON------------------------------------26.5
LILLOOET---------------------------------35.6
VICTORIA GONZALES ------------------38.8
NORTH COWICHAN------------------------39.6
VICTORIA UNIVERSITY----------------41.8
STUIE TWEEDSMUIR LODGE------------43.6
MERRITT----------------------------------44
VICTORIA INT'L A---------------------44
SHAWNIGAN LAKE------------------------44.2
SAANICHTON------------------------------45.2
SATURNA----------------------------------46.8
ESQUIMALT-------------------------------47.6
PENDER ISLAND-------------------------48.7
PEMBERTON ------------------------------48.9


Most rain in one day last month are randomly selected locations (alphabetical order):

Agassiz: 27.7 mm
Ashcroft; 22.4 mm
Bella Bella: 62.1 mm
Bella Coola: 22.6 mm
Blue River: 30.0 mm
Boat Bluff: 107.0 mm (notice that this is more rain then Kelowna received for the entire month!
Campbell River: 22.4 mm
Castlegar: 42.0 mm
Chetwynd: 24.8 mm
Clinton: 40.0 mm
Cranbrook: 26.8 mm
Dease Lake: 13.7 mm
Fort St John: 49.0 mm
Germansen Landing: 87.1 mm
Kamloops: 18.1 mm
Kelowna: 20.4 mm
Lillooet: 16.8 mm
Lytton: 7.5 mm
Okanagan Centre: 14.2 mm
Osoyoos: 26.6 mm
Pemberton: 11.8 mm
Prince George: 19.0 mm
Salmon Arm: 24.9 mm
Sandspit: 13.5 mm
Summerland: 15.2 mm
Vancouver: 14. 6mm
Vernon: 18.0 mm
Revelstoke: 29.5 mm
Quesnel: 13.9 mm
Whistler: 15.3 mm
Winfield: 18.0 mm

Okanagan (and there abouts) precipitation for the month:

LOCATION------------------Precipitation (mm)
MIDWAY------------------------------------180.2
REVELSTOKE A---------------------------146.3
RED LAKE---------------------------------137.9
SALMON ARM A---------------------------124.3
KELOWNA MWS0---------------------------106.6
PENTICTON-------------------------------97.1
SILVER CREEK---------------------------96.7
SALMON ARM CS-------------------------94.4
WINFIELD---------------------------------93.6
VERNON AUTO----------------------------85.2
SUMMERLAND CS-------------------------79.8
OKANAGAN CENTRE----------------------78.2
KAMLOOPS A------------------------------74.4
JELLICOE---------------------------------68.6
KAMLOOPS AUT---------------------------63.1
MERRITT STP----------------------------44

Temperature



The only places to hit 30 degrees (notice that one of the coolest and wettest places in Canada, Stewart, hit 30 degrees, but Kelowna did not):


SALMON ARM CS------------------31.3
STEWART A-------------------------31.2
VAVENBY----------------------------31
SALMON ARM A-------------------31
ASHCROFT---------------------------31
LILLOOET---------------------------31
LYTTON RCS-----------------------31
LYTTON------------------------------31
MIDWAY------------------------------30.5
SILVER CREEK-------------------30.5
OSOYOOS CS-----------------------30.2
REVELSTOKE A-------------------30.1
KAMLOOPS A-----------------------30.1
HEDLEY N---------------------------30
PEMBERTON AIRPORT CS-----30
DARFIELD---------------------------30
KAMLOOPS AUT-------------------30

[bob vernon]

Last weekend: "It's too co.........ld."

Next weekend: "It's too ho.........ot!".

[Lady tehMa]

Well, it was pretty hot but it was making up for lost time. My tomatoes are quite happy with the heat though! Now we have a thunderstorm warning . . . thought we were done with this.

My perception is that this summer seems to be one of extremes.

[Glacier]

Sorry, I've been away from Castanet for a while. There sure has been a big contrast from last month to this month (unless you live in Princeton where July has been wetter than June)!

P.S. Kelowna are Vernon are some of the coldest places around. I did a little comparison between a dozen or so "randomly" selected places here in BC and one place wayyyy up in the Northwest Territories, and wouldn't you know it, Vernon and Kelowna are relatively COLD! See for yourself (the minimum temperature scale is on the right-hand side of the first graph)...

[Glacier]

It's interesting how summer rainfall can be so hit and miss. On the 16th the Castlegar airport received 68 mm of rain, while the Castlegar hydro dam station just to the north only go 10 mm. Amazingly, Warfield (Trail) just to south had zilch.

[Queen K]

Well i'd appreciate that rain promised on Friday, NOW!

[Cumungala]

Interesting to see that both Lytton and Lillooet have both almost reached 40 degrees as their hottest temperature so far this summer. This doesn't surprise me seeing that they are both two of Canada's hot spots, but this hasn't really been much of a summer to write home about so far temperature wise. There has never been temperatures that hot in Kelowna in my entire life. Kelowna did hit 40 degrees in 1994, which was the year before I was born.

[Glacier]

Well i'd appreciate that rain promised on Friday, NOW!

check out the radar... it just started here.

Cumungala, each year is different. Osoyoos (especially in August) is often the hottest place in Canada.

[Queen K]

RAIN!

And thunder

[Lady tehMa]

happy now?