January was pretty mild across the board in terms of temperatures and precipitation according to Environment Canada.
With more on what we saw on a daily basis in Prince George, meteorologist, Ken Dosanjh spoke to MyPGNow.com.
“Last month, we saw minus five – that is around a 2.8 degree difference warmer than normal but it doesn’t put it in any extreme temperature regime and that was felt throughout the majority I would say.”
“We saw a lot of activity in terms of ridges of high pressure coming in from the south, essentially anchoring itself right over the south of BC and what that did is it kind reorientated the flow and had to go around it, so Prince George could feel that warmth coming from the south.”
It’s going to feel a lot like spring in Prince George for much of this week with daytime highs of 11 – 14 degrees above normal for this time of year.
Dosanjh added mid-week will be the peak of this latest ridge of high pressure but it will fall just shy of record-breaking.
“Averages for this time frame are usually a high of minus three but when you look at our Wednesday forecast, we have eleven., which is a fourteen degree difference. Even the overnight low periods for most of the work week will hover around two to five degrees.”
“The high of 11 degrees won’t actually break a daytime high because the daytime record for February 4th is 14.4 degrees, which was set back in 1941 so we are a couple of degrees from reaching that but if this was to happen a day later, that record is 10 degrees (February 5th).”
As for precipitation, the northern capital recorded 38.5 millimetres in January, the normal for the month is 49.
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