PG is windier

PRINCE GEORGE – If you’ve lived in Prince George for any length of time, you may have mused about the frequency with which the days have been windy. And you would be right.

“We’re seeing that, in more recent years, say about the last ten years, we’ve seen above-average speeds compared to the past thirty years or so,” says Bobby Sekhon with Meteorology Canada. “So if you look at, for example, if you look at the average wind speeds in the ’90s, it’s lower than what we’ve seen in the past ten years.”

“I have noticed that the weather patterns are becoming a bit less predictable,’ says Dave White, one of the City’s three arborists. “Wind does affect trees and increasing velocities of winds can affect them more.”