Environment Canada Meteorologist Doug Lundquist stated Prince George has been stuck in a rainy pattern for the last two months.
91.5 millimetres fell in June, much higher than the normal amount of 65.
So far in July, PG has seen an additional 93 millimetres drop from the sky, which is 50% more than normal for this time of year.
He mentioned that once a community like ours starts to receive a consistent rainfall, it can be pretty hard to shake.
“If it’s soaking wet the ground is very moist and it absorbs all that moisture, the trees are really hydrated, the leaves are really green and full of water so you get what we call evapotranspiration where it’s basically evaporation from the ground, trees and the plants and the soakings of the land make the moisture, it goes up into the atmosphere and any storms that come in can bring more moisture.”
Lundquist also told MyPGNow.com conditions should heat up by the weekend.
“We’ll start to get temperatures to climb on the weekend so it should be a sunny and fairly warm weekend in the low to mid-twenties, which is getting to be above average and then by early next week we could get into the high twenties with some places in the Chilcotin-Cariboo region and even the Prince George area may reach close to 30.”
“It looks like maybe, just maybe, it will start to feel more like summer by next week.”
He adds the dryer pattern that’s expected is pretty typical for mid-summer.