Wet and cool was the theme during March in Prince George in terms of the weather.
According to Environment Canada, the mean temperature for the month was -1.3 degrees, a half-degree cooler (-0.7) than normal for this time of year.
Meteorologist, Ken Dosanjh told MyPGNow.com the April outlook is a bit varied depending where you live in the province, but a warm up is expected for the northern capital.
“If you look at British Columbia as a whole, the coastal region is showing signals for drier than normal along the coast but once you move into kind of the Rockies and the BC-Alberta elbow is certain to be wetter than normal. So, Prince George is kind of in the middle between those two points.”
“April is a time where you start to see the normal mean temperature go from negative degrees to positive. A normal mean temperature for April is is five degrees so we are really jumping up and transitioning from that late winter to early spring kind of mix.”
When it comes to precipitation, Prince George saw 41.4 millimetres fall last month – that is up from the typical mark of 29.2.
The weather office states it is the 36th wettest March on record since 1913.
Temperatures over the several days are expected to climb between plus six and 11 degrees Celsius.
“Looking into the short-term heading into next week, conditions will be fairly calm. We’ll see temperatures kind of near normal heading into early next week – there isn’t a whole lot of activity expected but we could see some systems roll through that could bring a little rain,” added Dosanjh.
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