It likely won’t come as a huge surprise to most, but this May has been a lot wetter than normal.
Lisa Irvin, a Meteorologist with Environment Canada, says Quesnel has already surpassed it’s normal total for precipitation.
“With our preliminary stats that came out as of this (Tuesday) morning, the total rainfall that we’ve received in the Quesnel area has been about 55 millimetres, which is above the typical May rainfall of 43 millimetres and we’ve still got showers and risk of thunderstorms in the forecast for today, tonight and tomorrow.”
Irvin says this past Sunday (May 25) was particularly wet.
“In recent days the highest rainfall we received was 19.3 millimeters, that was on May 25th actually, so that was our second place for a daily rainfall record on a May 25th, but was not close to that 36.8 millimetres so we did not set a new daily record.”
Irvin says the 36.8 millimetres recorded on May 25th, 1981 is the wettest day ever in May in Quesnel.
She says Williams Lake has also been a lot wetter than normal.
“For rainfall falling so far we’ve seen about 49 millimetres. The monthly average is closer to 39, so we’ve already seen more rainfall than we would typically see in the month of May, and Williams Lake is under the same weather pattern that Quesnel is, so we’re likely to add to the precipitation totals for the month of May.”
Irvin says the wettest months in the Cariboo typically are June and July.
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