For the first time in six years, the skies above Peach Fest in Penticton were filled with the roar of jet engines as the Snowbirds put on their show.

The Royal Canadian Air Force's popular aerial acrobatics team took to the skies during the Penticton Peach Festival opening night on Aug. 6.

Heavy rainfall and lightning from a stormfront passed through the region, sending people scrambling for any bit of cover and delaying the Snowbirds for an hour.

The rain passed, and with sun shining through gaps between the clouds, they were still able to put on their full high-altitude show for the hundreds of people lining the beaches, filling Okanagan Lake Park and at vantage points all around the lake including atop Munson Mountain.

Before the Snowbirds took to the skies, there were other high-fl

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