Okanagan weather: super soaker arrives on Canada Day

After a beautiful, sunny start to the week with temperatures climbing to the mid-20s Monday afternoon, conditions will take a turn to finish June and to start July.

Showers slide back in on Tuesday morning with a risk of a thunderstorm in the afternoon, as the valley warms to the low 20s late in the day to finish June.

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Canada Day comes with a low pressure system pressing into the Interior, bringing fairly steady rain through the day and dunking daytime highs back into the mid-teens.

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Rain continues into the second day of July on Thursday with over 40 millimetres possible in parts of the North Okanagan and Shuswap regions.

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Drier air returns for the first weekend of July with temperatures clambering back into the mid-20s.

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