January was a warm, dry month across the Thompson-Okanagan

It was an abnormally dry and warm January across the Thompson-Okanagan.

"It was warm right across the board. The numbers don't lie we were 1.1 degrees warmer than your typical January at the Kelowna UBCO station," said Environment Canada meteorologist Armel Castellan.

Penticton was 1.4 degrees warmer than the seasonal average, sitting at the 20th warmest January on record.

In Vernon, January was 3.8 degrees warmer than normal.

"Looking at the dry conditions that are also fairly ubiquitous across much of the Southern Interior, we saw only 15.4 millimetres fall in Kelowna and 12.9 millimetres in Penticton. So that is just shy of 50 per cent of the normal amount," Castellan added.

Kamloops was 3.4 degrees above normal, the 11th warmest January on record for the city, which also only received 33 per cent of its normal precipitation with seven millimetres.

Vernon had 21.6 millimetres of precipitation fall. The city's average is 40.2 millimetres of precipitation.

The only area above 100 percent for the monthly precipitation average was at the SilverStar lodge. It saw 131 millimetres of rain and snow fall.

Despite a snowy start to the month, February is forecasted to be mild as well.

"It is climbing slowly through the next seven days and we expect that to continue probably the weekend following."

"We are starting to see that kind of Spring feel to the temperatures as the sun increases in altitude in the sky, so I don't want to say winter is over by any stretch, because we really don't have a clear signal for I would say beyond next weekend," Castellan added

Here are some temperature and precipitation stats for January 2023. #BCstorm pic.twitter.com/s5v3Mylkxi

— ECCC Weather British Columbia (@ECCCWeatherBC) February 1, 2023