By Ethan Ready

Rain rain, go away

Prince George already above monthly average for precipitation

Jul 19, 2020 | 3:13 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – Don’t be putting those umbrellas away just yet.

While residents may be itching for some much more seasonal-like conditions, Environment Canada is expecting unsettled conditions to persist.

“Looking at the short-term, unfortunately, I don’t see a whole lot of change,” says Dave Wray, a meteorologist with Environment Canada. “There’s a ridge of high pressure, however, it’s far off to the southwest so it’s not really giving the Central Interior the dry-warm weather that we might expect. I’d say for the next five to six days – at least – we are looking at cool unsettled weather to continue.”

That being said, we may receive the odd break with a few days without seeing precipitation, but in terms of a strong hot summer-time pattern, Wray states he doesn’t see that happening in the near future.

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“Normally, through the month of June, we would see a fair amount of unsettled cool weather. We call it upper-low, or cold-low season. Basically, it’s upper frontal systems swinging through that gives us a fair amount of rain. For June, that’s typical,” explains Wray. “What is a little unusual this year is by now we would normally have seen one or two strong ridges of high pressure, which would deflect most of the systems further to the north and keep us dry and warm. This year, that hasn’t set up.”

This has resulted in an abundance of precipitation and cool conditions throughout our region. In fact, according to data collected by Environment Canada, the month of July may turn out to be the wettest month of the year as meters at the Prince George Airport has collected 84.6 millimetres of precipitation has fallen.

With nearly two weeks remaining in the month, Prince George has received 136 per cent of its monthly average with no clear-cut sign of it ending anytime soon.