Fall starts Tuesday.
Environment Canada’s senior climatologist Dave Philips says, despite the active hurricane season, they’re projecting milder temperatures than normal.
Phillips tells The Hawk that doesn’t mean every day will be nice.
“You don’t have these long stretches in the fall. You tend to have maybe two or three fair days followed by a day or two of foul days and back into the fair days,” he says. “It’s that kind of flip-flop, back-and-forth, yo-yo weather that is so typical of the fall.”
Phillips says precipitation is a little harder to predict.
He says it’s important to remember fall is usually the wettest time of year.
“That’s when the rains really start coming in late October, November, December, January. I mean that’s when you get the remnants of tropical storms or real tropical storms,” he says “So it’s never really a dry season.”
Phillips says models are showing normal precipitation levels through the fall.
He says there’s no doubt this is an active hurricane season, meteorologists have run out of names for tropical storms this year and have moved on to naming storms after letters of the Greek alphabet.
Phillips says this is only the second time that’s happened. It happened last in 2005.
