Kamloops broke a record low temperature on Saturday as unusually cold weather continued over the holiday weekend. Environmental Canada meteorologist Dave Ray said temperatures as low as -5.5 C were recorded at Kamloops Airport on Saturday. This broke his old record of -5.0, set in 1971. “Twelve and a half, maybe up to two dozen records [were] “he broke the interior for yesterday morning,” Wray told Castanet Kamloops on Sunday. Wray said the airport recorded a low of -3.5 early Sunday morning and while he could not yet confirm whether the temperature had broken a record, it was “still quite cold”. “Considering that normal for this time of year is a low plus four, so even this morning, we are about seven and a half degrees below normal,” he said. Wray said Merritt and Cache Creek also saw record temperatures break on Saturday, hitting -8.3 C and -4.1 C respectively. On Good Friday, 13 counties across the county – including Lytton and Hope – surpassed or hit record lows.
