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AUGUST 8, 2018 | Volume 31, No. 63
SUN DOWN BRONCOS WEATHER Smoky and hot High 38 C, Low 18 C
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All-time heat record could fall Thursday, with Kamloops high forecast to top 40 C The Tournament Capital’s hottest recorded temperature was 41.7 C on July 16, 1941 A HOT ONE
Thursday’s high has the potential to be the hottest ever recorded in Kamloops, according to an Environment Canada meteorologist. Lisa Erven said the Tournament Capital’s forecast will put the alltime mark — 41.7 C, recorded on July 16, 1941 — in jeopardy. “Temperatures should peak on Thursday and we’ve got a daytime high of 40 C in the forecast for Kamloops,” she said. “That daytime high has the potential to set a daily temperature record for Aug. 9, but it will also flirt with the all-time record.” Kamloops’ hottest Aug. 9 was recorded in 1898, when the mercury reached 37.8 C — dead on 100 degrees if going by Fahrenheit. “We’ve got a forecast high of 40 degrees, so we’ll be very close to both those,” Erven said, adding it’s important to take precautions in extreme heat.
Kamloops’ five hottest days on record
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1) 41.7 C July 16, 1941 41.7 C July 27, 1939 3) 41.1 C July 19, 1944 41.1 C July 17, 1941 41.1 C July 15, 1941
“The best things to do are to drink plenty of water, seek cool places like the community swimming pool, seek out airconditioned places like the library or shopping malls, and of course never leave pets or people inside parked vehicles.” Erven also urged Kamloops residents to check on elderly family members, friends and neighbours to make sure precautions are being taken. The heat wave is expected to snap on Friday, when a cooler system is forecast to move across B.C.
IHA to meet with city after mayor says harm reduction ‘is clearly not working’ DALE BASS STAFF REPORTER dale@kamloopsthisweek.com
Interior Health Authority representatives are looking forward to meeting with Mayor Ken Christian to talk about drugs. When they sit down, they’ll bring a lot of scientific evidence to the discussion, said IHA medical health officer Dr. Silvina Mema, particularly as it relates to harm reduction. Last month, Christian said the harm-reduction program “is clearly not working,” and recommended a review of the relevant literature and piloting medical models focused on detoxing. Mema said there is plenty of scientific research demonstrating the value of harm reduction but she agrees it’s reasonable to review “what we do and how we do it to show where we are coming from,” she said. She said the mobile drug-consumption sites — Kamloops has one that goes between two locations — have been successful. To date, there have been hundreds of overdoses at those sites in the province but no deaths.
KTW FILE PHOTO Officials from the Interior Health Authority have said they are looking forward to meeting with Kamloops Mayor Ken Christian to talk about the ongoing overdose crisis.
‘Enforcement is not working’
The head of ASK Wellness says the organization is expanding its drugtesting program / A12 Mema said IHA’s decision to create the sites was based on scientific evidence that shows it
helps reduce the harm associated with the opioid crisis in the province. Drug testing is another part of harm-reduction, Mema said, and it’s one of the reasons IHA helped ASK Wellness Centre obtain a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (FTIR) that can identify substances in drugs. See ‘HOW TO,’ A12
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