Expect above-average summer temperatures, Canada’s environmental agency warns

Canada experienced its hottest summer in 2023, the year the planet broke temperature
records. Canadians, get ready for another summer of above-average temperatures.
That’s the message from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), delivered Tuesday in its summer seasonal forecast.
In a news conference Tuesday, Jennifer Smith, a national warning preparedness meteorologist with ECCC, said that most of the country can expect above-average temperatures this summer.
“There is a high probability of above-normal average temperatures for the summer season,” she said. “It’s important to note that this … does not indicate by how much temperatures are expected to be above normal, nor by how continuous those temperatures may be.” She also noted that we can expect the normal ups and downs of summer. “Daily weather will vary,” she said. “Expect heat waves, cool spells and all the fluctuations that summer weather brings.” Most of the above-average temperatures will occur in the North, down into northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and then extend into southern Ontario and eastward toward Quebec and the Atlantic provinces.
The only part of the country that is forecast to be near-normal or below average was coastal British
Columbia. “It doesn’t mean that those parts of Canada won’t experience warm spells, but when evaluating the season on a whole, the net temperature might not be above what is climatologically normal,” Smith said… Source: cbc.ca/news