Incoming heat for the west, the east stay stormy and cool
Hot summer like weather inbound for Western Canada meanwhile over the Rockies and Eastern Canada including the Great Lakes could be a different story, particularly around the storm track. So the jet stream is going to take a ride to the north, let’s say. So we have an incoming Ridge with which will deflect all of our systems well into Alaska and into the territories across BC and Alberta will get on on some of this heat as well. But the the hottest time period according to the models will be May 9th to May 12th, so over the weekend and into early next week and you can see those kind of tan Gray colors those are showing the valley locations lower elevation which will even be hotter of course than the higher elevation. We could see 10 to 12° above seasonal terms of our daytime highs. And by the way, Bellacula, you’ve already seen 25 point 625.8 this season. That’s the warmest we’ve seen. This 2024 season in BC and Sarnia ON has seen 27°. So what I was just showing you on that last map was just how dry we’re going to be. There’s no sign of moisture across BC, which is not great news to kick off the wildfire season, which of course already has some burning from last season. Saturday Hot, dry. Let’s make sure we practice good fire safety. 27 for where I live in Vernon down through a Soyuz not a cloud in the sky 28. Abbotsford in the mid 20s. There’s that temperature. Could we see 30° potentially for the first time across Canada this season? I think it’s likely that we could do that across the interior. Meanwhile, colder air sneaking into the Hudson Bay area and also across the lower Great Lakes, which means you can take those temperatures this weekend for you and slice them in about half of what the West is getting. We’ve got daytime highs around, you know, lower double digits and lower teens, and an active storm track will continue for the lower Great Lakes. Meanwhile, boring weather. In the West, under that Ridge of high pressure.