Summer officially hits the prairies with warm weather on horizon

It doesn’t feel like it, but summer has officially arrived in Saskatchewan.

It’s been a wet and miserable spring for many. David Phillips, a senior climatologist at Environment and Climate Change Canada, joined the CKOM Morning show to discuss what people can expect during the summer.

Phillips said Saskatchewan is losing valuable days with the cold weather.

“You should be complaining about the heat and humidity, not the cool and the wet,” said Phillips. “There’s some areas in the grain belt, there could be frost warnings.”

June will most likely end up being cooler than normal.

While Saskatchewan hasn’t had the heat wave the eastern part of the country has seen, Phillips reassures Saskatchewan the warmth is coming.

“July is the warmest month and August is the second warmest,” said Phillips. “What we see coming are some warm temperatures.”

Phillips joked saying maybe everything is just delayed and September could be what June is normally like temperature-wise.

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Heavy winds have also flown across the province throughout the spring.

Phillips said those heavy winds have brought a bunch of storm systems with them.
“A lot of systems are moving through,” said Phillips. “A big trough creates these little low-pressure areas that keep coming one after another, a parade of these things.”

According to Phillips normally after a storm system pushes past the province, more seasonally normal weather follows, but this year that hasn’t always been the case.

Phillips also joked that after a nicer-than-normal winter people predicted the lackluster summer.
“Maybe what people are saying is just ‘We knew this kind of winter that wasn’t, will produce the summer that isn’t’,” said Phillips.

Phillips said that you need to be hopeful when looking at the weather in Saskatchewan right now.