(UPDATE: May 23 @ 4:55 pm) – Environment Canada has expanded a severe thunderstorm watch to the Okanagan and Shuswap.
The original advisory was in place for the Boundary region and west Kootenay.
The watch now includes the south Shuswap, Vernon, Kelowna and Penticton.
(Original story: May 23 @ 2:30 pm) – A “severe” thunderstorm watch is in place for parts of the Southern Interior Thursday afternoon.
Environment Canada says conditions are “favourable” for severe thunderstorms in the Boundary and western Kootenays and even parts of the North Okanagan.
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“Severe thunderstorm watches are issued when atmospheric conditions are favourable for the development of thunderstorms that could produce one or more of the following: large hail, damaging winds, torrential rainfall,” the weather agency says.
The weather advisory is in place for a large area that stretches from just east of Kelowna and towards the BC-Alberta border and from just south of Revelstoke down to the US-Canada border.
Environment Canada reminds people that large hail can damage property and cause injury and “lightning kills and injures Canadians every year.”
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