Environment Canada has a chance of showers in the forecast for Prince George almost every day for the next week.
“We have a low that’s kind of situated over the Pacific waters, and it’s basically streamlining multiple impulses to the Central Interior,” said Ken Dosanjh, Environment Canada Meteorologist.
“So the Central Interior is going to have kind of a transition from its really hot and dry weather. We’re going to transition to more seasonable temperatures, but also more unsettled temperatures.”
Dosanjh said starting tomorrow (Friday), we’re going to see those waves start to streamline towards the Prince George area.
“These ones are highly convective, and the convective potential means there is a threat for very heavy downpours, but that also makes it very challenging in terms of predicting the exact quantity of precipitation at that time,” he explained.
“So if Prince George for example does get hit with a thunderstorm, then they could possibly see 10 to 20 millimetres during a small time.”
Dosanjh adds each successive day until the weekend will be generally unsettled and we’ll continue to see multiple impulses moving through the region.
“The entire Northern part of the province is going to remain pretty unsettled even into early next week as everything starts to kind of shift more towards the Central Interior.”
He adds that from Sunday onwards, we’ll see more ‘showery’ precipitation.
“It’s going to be almost a rinse and repeat, it’s just the environment won’t be as severe.”
In terms of smoke, Dosanjh said we can expect some more to creep into the area tomorrow, but the rain will help out with the smoke.
“The showers and thunderstorms that we do see do help in terms of spreading the smoke out and kind of mixing it away,” he explained.
“So if you do tend to see any showers moving over the Prince George region, that’s generally a good sign in terms of scouring out any sort of smoke.”
Dosanjh noted the Prince George Airport has recorded 2.2 millimetres of rain so far this month, and that July typically sees 62.1 millimetres.
Today. Prince George reached an unofficial high of 31 degrees, just one degree shy of the modern-day (1942-2010) record of 32.1.
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