Gardeners and Farmers Keeping an Eye on Thermometer
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PRINCE GEORGE – Environment Canada is calling for a cool down this week, and its possible the mercury will fall below the zero mark. This has local gardeners and farmers watching the thermometer very closely to see if the freeze will come.
With the temperatures expected to hit minus one Tuesday night, Philip Myatovic with Cariboo Growers is working hard to harvest his crops. Later in the week there are also chances of mixed snow and rain on the way, though its very likely we won’t see any accumulation.
UNBC Meteorologist Peter Jackson says the switch from summer to fall conditions has definitely taken place, ” We’re getting a flow of air from the north which brings cooler air over the region and some weak disturbances in that flow and that will bring precipitation and whenever there is precipitation when it’s close to zero it could fall as the white stuff.”
Environment Canada is also calling for an early snowfall season in the Pine Pass area to the northeast of Prince George beginning Tuesday, and a special weather statement says “current indications are suggesting that anywhere from 2 to 10 centimetres of heavy, wet snow will fall with greater accumulations likely over the higher terrain to the west.”
