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It’s looking like Good Friday will be filled with sunshine this year — a far cry from the snow and wind we had last year.
Environment Canada’s forecast for the long weekend currently has Friday sitting at 20 C with sunshine.
Senior climatologist David Phillips told the 980 CJME Greg Morgan Morning Show that Regina hasn’t seen those kinds of temperatures since October.
“That’s a barrier that’s hard to reach,” Phillips said. “The other thing is that there’s sunshine. You could have 20 degrees with rain and that just feels like 20 degrees. Twenty degrees in the shade with the sun out, it’s going to feel like 25, 26 degrees.”
While it’s going to be hot, it’s not near the record of 28.9 C set in 1952. But it is a polar opposite from what Regina endured on Good Friday in 2018.
“The wind chill was -32, you had 10 centimetres of snow on the ground and the high got up to -13,” Phillips said.
While there is some rain in the forecast for Saturday, Environment Canada is predicting Sunday and Monday will once again have sunshine with temperatures around the 10-degree mark.
The Good Friday weather could also be a good omen for summer, which Phillips says is expected to be warmer than normal.
“Good beer-drinking weather,” he said. “We think it will be maybe more humid than you think it should be in Saskatchewan but that means the crops are growing more feverishly.”
Getting precipitation in the province has been a problem so far this spring. March was tied for the driest ever and April hasn’t brought much moisture either; only about four or five millimetres of rain fell over those two months.