A little warmer and a little wetter than usual.
That’s how Environment Canada Senior Climatologist Dave Phillips describes the Quad Counties this fall.
Phillips says that lines up with their predictions.
He says, overall, the season came in about half a degree warmer than usual.
Phillips tells The Hawk December has been even warmer; by about two degrees.
“I think most people would recognize that, certainly, December was not as brutally cold as it sometimes could be,” he says.
Phillips says, despite that, there were some temperature swings.
He says some were quite pronounced.
“There were a few moments where we saw temperatures that got down to well below -9, -10 but then were rocketed up +6 to almost double-digit temperatures,” he says.
Phillips says it was a wet one as well, with 10 to 15 per cent more precipitation than normal.
He says some of that came from Hurricane Dorian.
