{"id":186697,"date":"2025-10-03T05:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T05:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/186697\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T05:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T05:17:09","slug":"kamloops-area-drought-rating-intensifies-as-north-and-south-thompson-basins-reach-level-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/186697\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamloops-area drought rating intensifies as North and South Thompson basins reach level 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Kamloops, enhanced water restrictions kick in if the South Thompson River reaches drought level 4, with more severe restrictions in effect at drought level 5. The <a href=\"https:\/\/cfjctoday.com\/2025\/06\/16\/impacts-yet-to-be-fully-felt-as-kamloops-gears-up-for-second-summer-with-new-year-round-water-restrictions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">city has not reached those levels<\/a> after <a href=\"https:\/\/cfjctoday.com\/2024\/04\/10\/new-year-round-water-restrictions-in-effect-city-of-kamloops\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new year-round water restrictions<\/a> were implemented last year.<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758347900_436_indicator-big.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Last year, the South Thompson River peaked at drought level 3 between Aug. 15 and Aug. 29.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDrought is continuing or worsening across much of the northeast, Central Interior and Southern Interior basins,\u201d the River Forecast Centre said in its latest bulletin. \u201cRecent and ongoing fall storms have brought drought relief across much of the coast. Some northern and Central Interior regions have seen improving streamflow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlows in the Southern Interior remain low despite some rain over the past week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The data shows the Clearwater, South Cariboo and Okanagan River basins are also at drought level 3, while the Nicola and the Similkameen basins are at drought level 4, the second-highest possible rating.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, the Quesnel, Chilcotin and Lower Thompson basins remain at drought level 2, while the Bridge River basin is at drought level 0.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFall storms will continue to bring heavy rain to the coast this week,\u201d the River Forecast Centre added. \u201cLimited rain or storm spillover expected for many Interior regions, with drought expected to worsen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA shift to drier weather [is] expected next week across much of the province.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Kamloops, enhanced water restrictions kick in if the South Thompson River reaches drought level 4, with more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-186697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}