(ADAM PROSKIW - REPORTER / iNFOnews.ca)
May 04, 2018 - 4:30 PM
It looks like the Southern Interior is in for a hot, dry summer.
According to Environment Canada meteorologist Cindy Yu, La Nina conditions that gave us unusually cold winters the last two years are expected to diminish next month, leading to “a warmer than normal trend.”
“There is a moderate chance we will transition to a warmer than normal summer. That transition will probably happen in July,” she says.
Warming will be caused by a ridge of pressure over the Interior that pushes weather into the Pacific Ocean or north to Alaska.
“With a ridge over land, we get warmer than normal temperatures and drier,” she says. “We had a little, weak ridge the last two days, but it’s going away. That’s why we are expecting a chance of showers in the next couple days.”
Vivian Thomas, spokesperson for the Ministry of Environment, says it's impossible to predict rainfall months in advance but Yu says there were fewer than average thunderstorms last summer and she expects that trend again this year.
"It looks like both July and August we may stay in that warmer than normal trend," she says.
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