ALLISTER AALDERS: Cool start to summer, but is heat on the horizon?
You won’t suppose it based mostly on the climate forecast, however at present is certainly the summer season solstice.
Did Mom Nature miss the memo that summer season arrives at present at 6:13 a.m. AT / 6:43 a.m. NT?
We’ve been caught with a trough of low-pressure because the weekend. This trough is weak sufficient that the showers left with it are fairly scattered, and the solar is attempting to peek by means of – extra for some than others.
Temperatures for Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Labrador are under or simply on the seasonal common due to a northerly movement over a lot of the area.
A extra pronounced southerly movement over Newfoundland is permitting temperatures to be close to and in some instances above the seasonal common away from onshore winds.
We have now some adjustments coming mid-week, however we received’t be utterly rid of this unsettled sample.
A big ridge of high-pressure will stay parked effectively off the east coast of Newfoundland. A separate upper-level ridge that’s introduced excessive warmth to elements central Canada and the U.S. will advance eastward.
In between, a trough close to Hudson Bay and one close to Cape Cod will attempt to join, forcing the latter ridge to flatten out earlier than reaching us.
The 2 ridges of high-pressure will nonetheless attempt to ‘maintain arms’ however might be positioned in a means that received’t utterly preserve troughs and frontal boundaries out, permitting weak frontal boundaries to deliver possibilities of showers at instances for the rest of the week.
There may be potential for summer-like warmth later this week and through the upcoming weekend.
Nonetheless, simply how heat it will get might be based mostly on the place you might be, and the quantity of cloud cowl and precipitation current from these disturbances.
It’s one thing I’ll be watching this week.
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Allister Aalders is a climate specialist with SaltWire Community.
