Environment Canada forecasts slow, but steady start to summer

by MODE, ignore | May 22, 2014 6:14 pm

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Although Environment Canada’s official summer weather outlook is still pending, early forecasts say temperatures in June will be cooler than average.

According to a CBC report, record ice cover over the Great Lakes has kept air temperatures in southern Ontario cool. As a result, it will likely be mid-June before warm air masses are able to raise temperatures back up to seasonal averages.

“This spring we’ve been living with the after effects of the winter we had,” said Environment Canada meteorologist, Geoff Coulson in the report. “There was so much ice on the Great Lakes—the most since records began in the early 70s—and that’s also been slowing us down in terms of warm weather.”

Coulson added in the report, however, once warm air masses do arrive, temperatures in July and August should hit well into the mid to high 20s, and humidity readings into the low 40s.

The report also suggests an El Niño event is likely to occur towards the end of summer or early fall, and as a result many climatologists are saying this coming winter will be much warmer than what was experienced in 2013-14, which could help prolong the swimming pool building season.

A similar weather pattern such as this occurred in 2011, a year where nationwide pool permit registrations increase by 14.2 per cent over the year prior.

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