Environment and Climate Change Canada released the stats on what October looked like for the Cariboo.
Overall, the region didn’t have a drastic difference in average temperatures compared to previous years, with Quesnel only being roughly one degree warmer than normal, and Williams Lake being in the same ballpark.
However Meteorologist, Alyssa Charbonneau says when looking closer, there was actually a larger difference.
“We had two distinct periods. The beginning part of the month was quite warm in both Quesnel and Williams Lake, and we saw temperatures quite a bit higher than normal,” says Charbonneau.
“and then the latter part of the month, we dipped into some cold air, so temperatures flipped to colder than normal.”
Charbonneau adds that when you add the average of both ends of the month, it washes out some of the extreme temperatures.
Looking at the month as a whole, the mean temperature for Williams Lake was 5.9 degrees, compared to the normal of 4.6.
In terms of how warm that is, it ranked 16th overall, going back to 1961.
Quesnel’s mean temperature was 6.4 for October, compared to the normal of 5.5, but was ranked at 41st dating back to 1893.
For precipitation, Williams Lake saw 10mm, with the normal being 41mm, making it the 3rd driest October on record.
Quesnel saw 16.7mm, where as the normal is 52.6, and ranked as the 13th driest month.
More information on current and upcoming weather can be found on Environment and Climate Change Canada’s website here.
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