August was quite a bit warmer in the Quesnel and Williams Lake areas this year.
Justin Shelley, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, goes over some of the numbers.
“For Quesnel specifically, we were 1.1 degrees above the normal. The average being 17.5, compared to the normal of 16.4. And for Williams Lake it was a bit warmer than that, 1.6 degrees above the average, 17.1 compared to 15.5.”
Historically, Shelley says it wasn’t record warm but it was up there.
“In terms of the temperature rankings it would be 16th warmest August on record for that station in Quesnel, and that dates back to 1895 when records began there. Williams Lake, a bit shorter period of records only since 1961, but August was their 8th warmest on record.”
Shelly says it was a tale of two cities when it comes to precipitation last month.
“There was a bit of a difference in the precipitation numbers however, with Quesnel being 126% of average, compared to Williams Lake that only received about 66% of normal precipitation, so we had a couple more storms just sneak past the northern portion of the Cariboo during the month.”
Shelly says Quesnel saw 49.6 millimetres of rain, compared to the usual 39.4, while Williams Lake had just 28.1. compared to the normal of 42.7 millimetres.
