Mother Nature is about to turn up the heat in the Cariboo.
A ridge of high pressure is expected to build over the weekend and into early next week.
“With ridges of high pressure comes dry conditions and of course warm conditions as well,” Colin Fong, Environment Canada Meteorologist, said, “As this ridge strengthens over the weekend we can also expect those temperatures to warm up along with it.”
Fong said the region will likely see daytime highs in the mid 20’s especially peaking from Sunday to Tuesday.
“It’s certainly going to start ramping up on Saturday and then maybe coming down just a touch on Wednesday and then on Thursday is when we expect a shift in the weather pattern to cooler conditions.”
For those peak days Fong noted they’re seeing temperatures about 25 to 26 degrees for daytime highs.
“For Williams Lake highs of 25 and 26 degrees that’s 9 to 10 degrees above normal. During that same stretch for Quesnel also 25 and 26 degrees that’s about 6 to 7 degrees above normal and for the South Cariboo we’re looking at about 8 degrees above normal.”
With that in mind, we asked Fong if there were any chances that temperature records could be set either Monday or Tuesday.
“The daily temperature records for Williams Lake on May the fourth is 25.1 set in 2023 and with a forecast high that day of 25 it’s going to be close. On May fifth the record is 27 degrees set in 1980 and we are forecasting 26 degrees that day so close, maybe a degree off. When it comes to Quesnel we’re not quite challenging the records. We fall a couple of degrees short on those two days.”
In the 100 Mile House area May fourth and fifth, Fong noted those records could be challenged.
“May the fourth record is 26 degrees set back in 2023 and May fifth the record is 25.3 degrees Celsius set in 2013 and our forecast is sitting at about 25 degrees so we’re in that range to perhaps have a record matched or broken.”
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