The senior climatologist at Environment Canada says we’ve come through a cold and dry spring in the Quad Counties.
Dave Phillips says it makes the season feel slow to start.
Phillips tells The Hawk it has a lot to do with our proximity to the Atlantic Ocean.
“It was a little disappointingly cool- (spring) always comes reluctantly to Atlantic Canada because of very cold waters,” he says. “That’s been a pattern we’ve seen maybe seven of the last eight years- springs have just tended to be a little cooler, a little slow to arrive.”
Phillips says, in fact, we had a few record cold days during the season, and June was two degrees colder overall, the last few days of the season aside.
He says it wasn’t all bad.
“We’ve had a temperature above 30,” he says. “We saw that in late May- 31 degrees, which is quite unusual.”
Phillips says overall precipitation was down 10 per cent.
Friday is the last full day of spring; summer officially arrives at 6:43 p.m. Saturday.
