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Shuswap Vol. 28 No. 27 July 7, 2017
Market News
Inside Shuswap
A3 Walkabout
Chainsaw challenge
Chase
Bill Bischoff muscles through his hot saw cut during the North Shuswap Timberdays Lumberjack Show on July 2 at Memorial Park in Chase.
Bear with cubs cute but dangerous. Plus Weekend deaths A3 No one left out A13
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Two views of history
Canada Day includes food for thought. Plus Photo displays A29 What’s On A30
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Alert issued over high temperatures Forest fire risk in Salmon Arm already classified as extreme. Barb Brouwer salmon arm observer
Blue skies and high temperatures make for fabulous days at the beach. Unfortunately, they also create the perfect scenario for forest fires. As of Tuesday, Salmon Arm was already at extreme risk for wildfires and the rest of the Shuswap was in the high danger risk. On Wednesday morning, Environment Canada added a special weather alert advising that temperatures are going to get even higher. “Afternoon temperatures will rise a couple degrees each day this week,” reads the alert. “Daytime maximum
temperatures will reach the mid to upper 30’s Thursday through the weekend. Overnight conditions will also remain quite warm.” The heat combined with the warm and dry weather from June will increase the fire danger rating across much of southern B.C. Wind has also been a factor in driving up the fire risk, particularly on the southeast side of the community towards Vernon. Tracy Winnick, fire information officer with the Kamloops Fire Centre, says there has been discussion about imposing a campfire prohibition next week.
But fire officials continually re-evaluate the situation and will issue a ban on campfires earlier if the need arises. Environment Canada meteorologist Cindy Yu says after a long wet spring, June turned out to be a drier-than-normal month. “As far as June 4th you had the wettest spring on record, going to the second driest June,” she says. “You didn’t get a whole lot of precipitation in June.” Salmon Arm received 218.6 millimetres of rain in the three-month meteorological spring that is March through May, or 151 per cent of
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normal, which is 144.7 mm. But the tables turned in June when the community received only 12.4 mm, which is only 19 per cent of the normal 65.7 mm for the month and a far cry from the 76.3 mm of rain that fell in May. And the current forecast is for sun and high temperatures, peaking at 36 C in Salmon Arm on Friday and Saturday, with no precipitation. There’s a trough of low pressure hanging over the Pacific and Alaska, says Yu, noting the jet stream has separated it from a larger low Continued on A4