The senior climatologist with Environment Canada says we can expect a warmer than normal spring in the Quad Counties.
Spring officially arrived March 20.
Dave Phillips with Environment Canada tells The Hawk his models indicate our spring in the Quad Counties should be a bit warmer than usual.
“We will see a few more flakes- don’t write the obituary on snow quite yet, I don’t think there’s ever been an April without some flurries in the air in eastern Nova Scotia,” he says. “My sense is that this is usually not the wet season- my sense is that it’s all about warming it up.”
Phillips says we shouldn’t expect it to be warm right away.
He says there will still be some temperature swings in the near future.
“We get temperatures that could be, in the next couple of days, three or four degrees cooler than normal, then they get three or five degrees warmer than normal, then kind of back-and-forth and up-and-down,” he says. “That kind of yo-yo, rollercoaster kind of ride is very typical.”
Phillips says the warmer trend should continue into the summer, so we might be able to put up with some spring flurries and cooler temperatures.
