While it felt it like June in Kamloops was cooler and wetter than years, past, data from Environment Canada shows it was a pretty average month.

Meteorologist Chris Doyle says Kamloops got 30.5 mm of rain last month, which is below the average of 37.4 mm in a typical June.

Speaking to Radio NL, Doyle says it was slightly cooler than usual as well as the mean temperature last month was 17.8 C, which was a little below the typical average of 18.4 C.

“I’m guess the cloud cover was greater than usual,” Doyle said, when asked why it felt like a cooler and wetter June.

“With higher cloud cover, you’re not going to be outside in direct sunlight as much, and you’re not going to feel as warm, so that is why maybe people felt cooler, but the air temperature was not much cooler.”

Doyle says the officially records shows it only rained about six days in the month of June.

“You get the stuff called virga which is the shower that falls from the base of the cloud, and 99 per cent of it evaporates before it even hits the surface,” Doyle said. “You may get the odd drop or two but its not recorded, so officially, it didn’t happen.”

Doyle says while the rain in June helped ease some drought concerns, we’re still not out of the woods.

“At least there was some [rain], so what it means is the drought situation didn’t deteriorate all that much in June,” Doyle said. “We’re moving into July now and August, and these can be showery but they’re generally pretty dry months and so we do not expect the drought condition to improve and get any better certainly through July.”

“What its really going to take is a wet fall and a snowy winter to really reverse the moisture profile in the soil.”