It hasn’t been a particularly fantastic summer weather wise, to put it lightly.
Doug Gilham, a Weather Network Meteorologist, admits many parts of Ontario have not seen a lot of sun - especially during the weekends which has spoiled many events and outings including the Canada Day festivities in the North Bay area in the first weekend of July.
“We haven’t had a dry weekend since June 10th, in the GTA and I expect that’s about the same for North Bay,” said Gilham in a phone interview with BayToday.ca on Wednesday.
“We have had six weeks in a row, I wouldn’t say wash outs but we’ve had a day of rain or periods of rain or where the rain has interrupted things and there is no question that the weather on weekends, especially the long weekends, and when somebody is on vacation, shapes things substantially.”
Gilham says summer has panned out much the way they anticipated in their summer forecast.
“The word that we used for the summer was changeable and that that temperatures for the summer for were forecasted for near normal across southern and central Ontario including North Bay and we had you right on the line at wetter than normal,” said Gilham.
But there is some good news on the horizon in and around the North Bay and northeastern Ontario.
Gilham doesn’t expect a complete pattern reversal but he says the weather pattern is expected to ease up.
“We are going to break our streak this weekend, we have got a beautiful weekend - it won’t be hot but the sun will go a long way and be close to seasonal this weekend,” said Gilham.
And that could include decent weather conditions for Summer in the Park.
“Then next week is a drier week - not a complete rain free week - unfortunately as we move toward the long weekend we could see a cooling trend but still always that’s a long ways out.
“August will see some back and forth swings in temperature but in mid August we will do what July wasn’t able to do, I think we will be able to string together some above normal temperatures but probably the month as a whole will end up close to normal because we are still going to have some cool days.”
And that late ray of sunshine in August could be enough to help salvage a less than lovely summer of 2017.
