A beautiful, busy Osprey Links golf course on Thursday, September 25th. Unfortunately days like this were few and far between in the summer. PHOTO BY CHRIS DAWSON.
When the clock hit 10:29 p.m. on Monday, September 22nd, that was the official end of summer.
Normally, the end of summer is a disappointing day.
But for Osprey Links Golf Course General Manager Jeff Rogerson, that wasn’t the case.
“All I was thinking at 10:59 was good riddance,” said Rogerson bluntly.
“It didn’t feel like a summer.”
Yes, many of you don’t want to be reminded about the so-called summer in the North Bay area.
First there was the unseasonably cool temperatures.
“It hasn’t been the greatest summer for the North Bay area,” Weather Network Meteorolgical Team Leader Dayna Vettese told BayToday.ca
“Temperature-wise, June was about normal (22-23ºC) but July and August have both been averaging about 1-2Cº below normal for day time highs. The summer high temperature has averaged to about 21.8ºC where a normal summer would average closer to 23ºC.”
Then, of course, there was the rain.
“On average, the North Bay area receives about 280-300 mm of rain for June, July and August combined,” said Vettese.
“This summer (June 1- August 31), North Bay has recorded over 500 mm. Both June and July saw nearly 200 mm each (where the average for June is almost 100 mm and the average for July is almost 100 mm).”
As a golf course operator, Rogerson can attest to that.
“We didn’t run a club event this year that wasn’t somehow impacted by weather,” admitted Rogerson.
“We had ladies night on Tuesday nights and they elected not to play on Canada Day (July 1st) and I think they missed the next 4 weeks in a row following that because of rain. That’s 5 weeks with no event at all. That’s just unheard of,” he admitted.
Now Rogerson just hopes for a dry fall to attract some late season play as well as allow the ground to dry so it doesn’t go into winter with the ground super saturated like it is now.
