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By Aaron Schulze

Prince George Precipitation

Prince George forecast to see drier and warm conditions after mostly average May

Jun 2, 2024 | 12:25 PM

PRINCE GEORGE — It was a slightly cooler yet slightly drier month of May for Prince George.

Preliminary numbers provided by Environment Canada show Prince George received 41.2 millimetres of precipitation, which is close to the normal 45.4 millimetres. The average temperature for May was 9.2 degrees Celsius, slightly cooler than the normal 10.3 degrees.

Speaking to CKPG Today on Sunday (June 2), Philippe-Alain Bergeron, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, says a late season atmospheric river in the lower mainland will bring light to moderate rainfall across the Prince George area over the next few days. Although a dramatic pattern change is expected mid-week.

“Our confidence is growing day-to-day that there will be a large-scale, big, high-pressure ridge that will be building starting mid-week,” Bergeron says. “It’s gradual warming and dry conditions throughout second half of the week and likely into next weekend. That may be breaking down between Sunday and early next week; that’s very uncertain. But we have confidence you’ll get three to four days that will be sunny and warm.”

As of noon Saturday, the BC Wildfire Service says the fire danger rating ranks mostly very low and low for the bottom half of the Prince George Fire Centre and moderate to high for the top.

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However, Bergeron says surfaces in B.C.’s interior are likely to dry out rapidly following the warmer temperatures later this week.

“The deficit did not get any worse, but to really be able to compensate and start to get to a lower drought code we would need excess precipitation for several months,” Bergeron says. “Longer term, we might still in trouble in terms of having the ground being very dry throughout the summer, unless we get more sustained rainfall.”