I use Environment Canada’s hourly forecasts.    It provides wind forecasts for each hour for the next 24 hours ahead.    I can check the forecast in each direction, then know if there are favorable paddling conditions on a lake in one of the four directions.  Quite often it is windy in Kamloops, but much better to the east or south.

Recently it has been better to the south of Kamloops so I have paddled Trapp Lake, Shumway Lake, and Stump Lake.    If I go east in April I choose Little Shuswap Lake, White Lake, or Monte Lake.

Higher elevation lakes may still have some ice so they will be paddled a little later.