The BC River Forecast Centre is pointing to a couple of reasons why there's intense flooding this spring.
Forecaster Dave Campbell says the snowpack, particularily in the Southern Interior and the southeast part of the province, grew significantly since April 1st.
He says it's sitting at 110% to 140% of normal.
"And so there's lots of snow to melt off and come down, and so that's been posing challenges over the weekend with rainfall and melt, and then also we're anticipating it's likely to pose challenges through the region as we go throgh this week," he says.
Campbell says the possibility of more rain dropping on already saturated ground is worrying.
"We look at Kelowna, where for the last two months, we've had two or three times the amount of normal rain, and that's not including the rain we got in this last cycle," says Campbell. "Creeks are already high, so if some storms park themselves over top of that, it could still be problematic."
He says we still have snow lying around at 1500 to 1600 metres, "so a lot of that lower-mid elevation snow is out now, and is not going to be contributing to flows in the way the upper elevation snow will on streams like Mission Creek, where there's still plenty of melt water from the headwaters going to come down."