............... not interested, anyway

One of the things the weather stats don't show is the freaky weather ... like the hail storm that did $4K damage to my car in under 10 minutes or another that destroyed all the roofs in the neighbourhood.

Does Kamloops get seriously freaky weather??

I know BC does - I've been in Kelowna twice now when "50 year" storms swept down the lake ... and of course Vancouver had a whole inch of snow last winter when it got down to -10C (Calgary t-shirt weather).

that was my first thought whenn we came on our reccie, but by the time we left we knew we wanted to live here

AN inch?? I'll have you know twas at least and inch and a half!!

Oh, how you must have suffered

Have they purchased another snow plow yet?

I've not seen any. We get some thunder and electrical storms in late summer (which often don't result in any rain), but that's as far as it goes in terms of 'freaky' stuff.

Never seen hail here, nor fog. Rainy spells of more than a few days are rare too. Late afternoon tends to see increased winds funneled up westwards from the Coquihalla direction, so it can feel blustery for an hour or so, but generally it calms pretty quickly.

I used to do a lot of work for a customer in Edmonton - they still talk about how badly the tornado trashed their Sherwood Park office.

We get hail storms that strip the leaves off trees, smash skylights and dent cars ... never seen golf ball sized hail until I got here.

Working from west to east,

Pacific Hurricanes
Earthquakes
Torential Rain and landslides
Forest Fires
Winter Storms
Huge Hail
Tornados
Tornados
Huge Hail
Freezing Rain and Ice storms
Freezing Rain and Ice storms
Atlantic Hurricanes


Take your pick, there is always some sort of adverse conditions possible:

I was just about to say rotate your map ... the Pacific is on the left hand side ... your were quick on that edit ...

I remember reading on the BBC website that Edmonton had weather similar to the UK

Well, thats a question of interpretation surely... it does have the occasional sunny day in the 20s, and so does the UK

It also has trees and a river ... as do many UK cities