The month of June saw ten per cent more rain than normal in Kamloops.

Environment Canada forecaster Armel Castellan says the Tournament Capital say 42 millimetres of rainfall last month.

That was followed by the fifth-wettest Canada Day on record in Kamloops, where 11.2 mm of rain fell.

“If you look at it from a wildfire perspective, it’s actually a good news story. Because the drought and the wildfire are way behind schedule. You could’ve already had a very active late-spring and early summer at this point, and that’s certainly not what we’re seeing this year,” Castellan says.

“That said, from a freshet perspective and flooding, we’re not totally out of the woods. There’s still concerns on the Fraser, the Thompson. Up into the northeast there’s a lot of concern up there with continued cut off low-pressure systems that just continue to deliver rain.”

Castellan says B.C., as a whole, saw 41 per cent more rain than normal last month.

A flood watch is in effect for the North and South Thompson rivers, the Fraser River through the Fraser Canyon, as well as for Shuswap Lake, the Shuswap River and the Adams River.