Prince George experienced a seasonal May according to Environment Canada.
Meteorologist, Armel Castellan told MyPGNow.com while the rest of the province experienced a huge warm-up from Mothers Day on, we weren’t quite as lucky.
“The warmth wasn’t quite as present and as a result, May was very close to normal, we were just point-one degree than the statistical mean for the month, which was 10.2 degrees versus the 10.1 that we normally see.”
May 22nd turned out to be a record-setting day for rain as 10.6 mm fell, breaking the previous mark of 9.2 in 2003.
When it taking a look at the spring season between March and May, cold and dry were the two best words to describe it.
“2.9 degrees was registered for the three month season and five degrees is normally what we see so it was a 2.1-degree drop, that’s good for the 11th coldest March, April, May on record since 1943,” said Castellan.
94 millimetres of precipitation fell in the northern capital, just short of the normal amount of 114.
As for summer, Castellan states it might take a while for Mother Nature to put the sizzle back into summer in Prince George as a wet start to the season is expected.
“So if you isolate the months of July and August, those start to turn to a warmer bias so June will be a cooler and then we will shift to a warmer pattern for the summer months themselves.”
The weekend forecast for Prince George is predicting cloudy skies with showers and daytime highs of 15 and 16 degrees.
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