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Halloween shaping up to be a dry one

Will the weather be a trick or a treat this Halloween?

Oct 28, 2019 | 12:57 PM

PRINCE GEORGE–Our weekend was quite the treat, bringing us sunshine and blue skies.

That was the treat, but will the trick be the weather on Halloween for Trick-or-Treaters? Not according to Armel Castellan, a Meteorologist for Environment and Climate Change Canada. He says that temperatures will be “very close to average,” also telling us that Trick-or-Treaters can expect a dry trick-or-treating experience on Thursday.

The coldest Halloween on record dates back to 1984 when we saw a hand numbing -19.9 degrees. Castellan says that we are currently seeing cooler temperatures, as is most of the province, however, that will change as we will begin to see seasonal averages further into the week.

43 percent of the time snow or rainfall falls on Halloween,” said Castellan.

Castellan highlights that there is almost a fifty-fifty chance that there will either be some sort of precipitation on Halloween or not, according to patterns from the past. This year the Trick-or-Treaters may have lucked out with the dry half versus the wet. Halloween night is expected to dip into -4 overnight staying at around zero degrees around the Trick-or-Treating hours.