The summer solstice - the day when the sun is the highest it ever gets in the sky occurs today around 6:30 p.m. to mark the official start to summer.
The Weather Network told BayToday.ca recently that its predicting a good summer for North Bayites.
“We are calling for a warmer than normal summer but not an excessively hot summer but we don’t think it will be well above normal,” said Doug Gilham, a Meteorologist with Canada’s Weather Network.
"It will not be remembered as a top 10 hot summer which probably makes some people unhappy.”
Gilham says they predict a normal amount of precipitation in the summer months. However he expects there to be some periods of dry conditions but nothing too extreme.
Gilham notes that coming up with an accurate seasonal forecast has been tough.
“It was a challenge to forecast because in a transition from strong El Nino to a strong La Nina, so when you have such a major transition going on the timing of that can get tricky and the details of what that looks like can be tricky but we won’t start to really feel the effects of La Nina until the fall and winter,” he said.
