{"id":733166,"date":"2026-06-13T01:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T01:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/733166\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T01:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T01:15:11","slug":"recent-rainfall-not-enough-to-alleviate-kamloops-area-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/733166\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent rainfall not enough to alleviate Kamloops-area drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5b5b5532-193e-4ab7-a85e-c19e3c110000.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Image Credit: CFJC File Photo)<\/p>\n<p>By Elora McCormack<\/p>\n<p>Kamloops drought<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJun 12, 2026 | 11:57 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>KAMLOOPS \u2014 The Kamloops area remains drought-stricken despite recent rainfall, with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada noting it is currently among the driest parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Agroclimate Specialist Trevor Hadwen said 25 per cent of the country was classified as \u2018abnormally dry\u2019 or drought, including 21 per cent of Canada\u2019s agricultural landscape.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn April, much of the country received below-normal precipitation. BC\u2019s coastal and Interior regions, southern Manitoba and northwestern Ontario saw the largest monthly precipitation deficits,\u201d said Hadwen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn British Columbia and western Alberta, poor precipitation in May resulted in expanding and deepening drought conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Image Credit: CFJC File Photo) By Elora McCormack Kamloops drought Jun 12, 2026 | 11:57 AM KAMLOOPS \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-733166","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\/733166","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=733166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}