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Ottawa’s cold, wet spring ‘the definition of misery,’ says Canada’s weatherman
OTTAWA — We are Les Misérables this spring — cold and wet and wearing fall clothes.
In fact, the only reason we haven’t challenged a record for rainfall in the past 30 days is that Environment Canada only measures records for individual calendar months.
Early May was warm and sunny. But since then it’s a mess.
“Let’s just say we’re selling raincoats,” said Melanie Dea, who would rather be selling bright summer fashions at Clothes by Muriel Dombret on Wellington Street West.
“You’re not going to sell sundresses on a cold rainy day,” she said. “I guess ultimately weather dictates mood and mood dictates shopping.”
And what a mood it is.
The past month “is probably a good definition of misery,” said David Phillips, senior climatologist at Environment Canada and author of the Canadian Weather Trivia Calendar. Here are the numbers he worked out specially for us:
• Ottawa has had rain on 22 of the 30 days ending Monday.
And Phillips found that even the dry days were mostly cloudy, “so if it wasn’t raining it was looking like rain.”
• In those 30 days we had 173.3 millimetres of rain. That’s 68.3 mm in the final 13 days of May and 105 mm so far in June.
The normal for that period would be 86 mm — almost precisely half of what we actually got.
• Of the 10 Saturdays and Sundays in that period, it rained on eight. “That also drives the moroseness that people have. They think, Wow, what are we in for?”
• It’s been cold, too. The average temperature so far in June has been 1.3 degrees below average, and the general rule in the weather business is that one degree over an extended period represents a big enough difference for people to feel.
But Phillips notes the nights have been mostly ordinary for the time of year. It’s the daytime highs that have been most out of whack — 1.9 degrees below normal. And that’s the time of day that people notice most.
“It tells you there’s been a lot of cloud.”
Phillips also looked at years with the wettest May ever (1986) and wettest June ever (2002), and he compared our latest 30-day period with similar periods in those years.
It turns out that our 173 mm of rain this year is just a millimetre short of the 1986 rainfall for the same period, though it’s some 40 mm less than the amount in 2002.
“It’s almost like the water torture test,” Phillips said. “It’s been consistently wet.”
But the fashion world hasn’t given up on summer.
“I think a lot of Ottawans and our customers have really mastered the art of layering,” said Régine Paquette, co-owner of Victoire Boutique.
“We’re still selling summer dresses but we’re telling people to wear them with tights, and they’re wearing fall boots instead of cute little summer sandals.”
Her forecast: “If you dress for it, it will come.”
Environment Canada’s summer forecast is for average temperatures, and extra rain — though most forecasters see precipitation forecasts as highly unreliable.
And this week’s forecast? Sunny — until the weekend. There are more showers expected Saturday and Sunday.
Read more at ottawacitizen.com
OTTAWA — We are Les Misérables this spring — cold and wet and wearing fall clothes.
In fact, the only reason we haven’t challenged a record for rainfall in the past 30 days is that Environment Canada only measures records for individual calendar months.
Early May was warm and sunny. But since then it’s a mess.
“Let’s just say we’re selling raincoats,” said Melanie Dea, who would rather be selling bright summer fashions at Clothes by Muriel Dombret on Wellington Street West.
“You’re not going to sell sundresses on a cold rainy day,” she said. “I guess ultimately weather dictates mood and mood dictates shopping.”
And what a mood it is.
The past month “is probably a good definition of misery,” said David Phillips, senior climatologist at Environment Canada and author of the Canadian Weather Trivia Calendar. Here are the numbers he worked out specially for us:
• Ottawa has had rain on 22 of the 30 days ending Monday.
And Phillips found that even the dry days were mostly cloudy, “so if it wasn’t raining it was looking like rain.”
• In those 30 days we had 173.3 millimetres of rain. That’s 68.3 mm in the final 13 days of May and 105 mm so far in June.
The normal for that period would be 86 mm — almost precisely half of what we actually got.
• Of the 10 Saturdays and Sundays in that period, it rained on eight. “That also drives the moroseness that people have. They think, Wow, what are we in for?”
• It’s been cold, too. The average temperature so far in June has been 1.3 degrees below average, and the general rule in the weather business is that one degree over an extended period represents a big enough difference for people to feel.
But Phillips notes the nights have been mostly ordinary for the time of year. It’s the daytime highs that have been most out of whack — 1.9 degrees below normal. And that’s the time of day that people notice most.
“It tells you there’s been a lot of cloud.”
Phillips also looked at years with the wettest May ever (1986) and wettest June ever (2002), and he compared our latest 30-day period with similar periods in those years.
It turns out that our 173 mm of rain this year is just a millimetre short of the 1986 rainfall for the same period, though it’s some 40 mm less than the amount in 2002.
“It’s almost like the water torture test,” Phillips said. “It’s been consistently wet.”
But the fashion world hasn’t given up on summer.
“I think a lot of Ottawans and our customers have really mastered the art of layering,” said Régine Paquette, co-owner of Victoire Boutique.
“We’re still selling summer dresses but we’re telling people to wear them with tights, and they’re wearing fall boots instead of cute little summer sandals.”
Her forecast: “If you dress for it, it will come.”
Environment Canada’s summer forecast is for average temperatures, and extra rain — though most forecasters see precipitation forecasts as highly unreliable.
And this week’s forecast? Sunny — until the weekend. There are more showers expected Saturday and Sunday.
Read more at ottawacitizen.com
