You’re not alone if you found it a very cool, wet spring.
Spring officially came to an end Friday.
Dave Phillips, Environment Canada‘s senior climatologist, tells The Hawk temperatures in the Quad Counties were two or three degrees colder than average during the last half of the season.
“If you think it’s been cool and wetter than normal, you’re not imagining it- it clearly has been, it’s been consistently cool and wet,” he says. “Certainly, beginning in March and April were near normal, but May and June have been disappointingly cool.”
Phillips says spring precipitation totals were 70 per cent higher than normal for the Quad Counties.
He says it’s been an issue for local farmers- the wet and cool weather raised challenges as they try to plant their crops.
“Farmers have not been able to get out there and do their thing on the fields- (there’s) a lot of standing water,” he says. “There’s some worry in the agricultural area, and certainly no one is talking about wildfires or forest fires, but it’s really been disappointing.”
Phillips says there wasn’t a lot of sunshine, so if it wasn’t raining, it felt like rain.
