{"id":6311,"date":"2025-07-18T20:13:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T20:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/6311\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T20:13:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T20:13:19","slug":"despite-recent-rain-drought-is-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/6311\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite recent rain, drought is possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BC River Forecast Centre and the Province are still cautioning that rain may help, but a lot of rain would have to fall to avert a drought.  <\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/indicator-big.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we look at some of those longer-term deficits in rainfall, we\u2019re looking at kind of like that 50, 150 millimetre range of what we\u2019re below. So, when we think about areas like Fort St John, for example, that might be a couple of months\u2019 worth of rain,\u201d says Campbell.<\/p>\n<p>He says the challenge this year came out of the mountains.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the challenges with the snowpack, particularly for rivers through the Upper Fraser East, so it comes from a lot of the mountains in the Rockies and the Cariboo mountains. And so that\u2019s really where that snow is quite important, and we know that that\u2019s gone,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was a low snowpack, and that water has really moved through. So unless it was captured in a lake or a reservoir, you know, we\u2019re going to see that continued pressure as we go through the season.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Stephen Dery says the tables could turn quickly, depending on conditions.  \u201cIf we get a dry spell as sometimes we do, of course, in the month of July if not August, when we get temperatures of 25 to 30 degrees and a lack of precipitation that can accompany those warm temperatures.\u201d  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BC River Forecast Centre and the Province are still cautioning that rain may help, but a lot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-6311","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\/6311","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=6311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}